Mu Xin and Love Poetry in the Context of World Literature
In the context of world literature,with snippets from the author's past conversation with Mu Xin,this article explores Mu Xin's multi-layered connections with love poetry in other civilizations in order to discover some aesthetic laws and characteristics.Mu Xin's love poetry is to be appreciated as"impersonal poetry"in which the"I"is not the author's own person but persona(s)he has created for various dramatic situations that integrate eros into emotions and wisdom.Mu Xin's poetic style is a synthesis of conversational and classical Chinese,and foreignness from translations;it has absorbed different styles from the Hebraic,Hellenic and Persian traditions,and has borrowed from the vocabulary of modern sciences such as botany,thus showing multi-dimensional connections with traditions from the world.More importantly,his poetic style is the expressive vehicle of profound visions of the infinite universe,life and history.
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