Abstract:
Loftiness has been singled out in modern times as an expression of human beings advancing to a higher realm of civilization. In the history of new poetic aesthetics, Guo Moruo contributed to and pioneered in poetics by expressing lofty beauty in his poems. Different from Lu Xun who introduced tragic aesthetic experience to new literature, Guo brought lofty aesthetic experience to new literature and poetry. His view of writing “grand powerful poems” projected a lofty aesthetic category, marking Chinese literature’s successful turn “from classic harmony to modern loftiness”. Guo’s aesthetic turn contained a deep historical aesthetic logic, which determined the extension of direction of development of poetic aesthetics. With The Goddess established as the first standard classic in the history of Chinese modern poetry, Guo’s aesthetic attitude influenced the aesthetic orientation of other new poetic classics. Thus a proper understanding of this aesthetic fact is of important theoretical value to understanding new poetry and its aesthetic innovation and correcting the misplacement in understanding of The Goddess.
