ProfessorGuZhengkun:AnswerstoQuestionsConcerningComparativeStudiesofChineseandWesternLanguages,Cultures,Literatures,Arts,andWorldLiterature/ZHANGCha

Abstract： The present interview with Professor Gu Zhengkun is conducted from five aspects. Firstly, it outlines the main similarities and differences between the Chinese and Western languages and cultures, and probes into the main reasons for these similarities and differences in comparative perspective. Secondly, it reviews the Chinese and Western poems in a general sense, and analyses the main problems and solutions to the Chinese-western poem translation strategies. Thirdly, it makes a comparative study of Chinese and western literatures with examples of Guo Moruo versus Thomas Stearns Eliot and William Shakespeare versus Tang Xianzu. Fourthly, it expounds the differences between the Chinese and western arts. Finally, it discusses the past, present and future issues of world literature and comparative literature.

Keywords： China and the West; languages and cultures; literatures and arts; comparative study; world literature

FacesinthePoems:TheCoveringofImages/CHENYongguo

Abstract： Based on the description and revelation of faces in the poems by Pound, Whitman and Rilke, this article tries to delve into the ultimate reality hidden behind the faces as masks. Using the philosophical reflections by such philosophers as Deleuze and Cixous, it explores the world represented with the faces as images and believes it is not real, and, just as the art and poetry in which it is represented, it always tries to cover, mask and hide and, in the meanwhile, to uncover, unmask and participate.

Keywords： poetry; faces; covering; uncovering

ThePoeticLifeWritingofEarlofSurrey/GAOJihai

Abstract： Studies of the poems of Earl of Surrey are few in the West and almost a blank in China, as he was mentioned only in passing in Histories of English Literature. His autobiographical poems are selected for translation and analysis to throw lights on his life, his relation with King Henry VIII and his tragic death in the hand of Henry, to prove that his death was partly the result of the environment, but more the outcome of his character. The Earl of Surrey was born a poet, and composing poems gave him the greatest pleasure, becoming for him the best vehicle to release pressure, to vent anger, and to express personal ideas. The sonnet originated in Italy, and the typical Petrarchan sonnet consists of two four-line stanzas and two three-line stanzas, rhyming ABBA ABBA CDC CDC, while Surrey changed it to three four-line stanzas with a couplet, rhyming ABAB CDCD EFEF GG, which later became the standard English sonnet form, earning him an eternal position in the history of English literature.

Keywords： Earl of Surrey; sonnet; Wyatt; Henry VIII

TheLongPoemTraditionandtheTopologicalSpaceConstructionofKeats’sPoetry——ACaseStudyofEndymion:APoeticRomance/LUOYiminLIUYang

Abstract： The long poems are of first importance in western tradition. Its highest form is epic, whose tradition lasts and continues to the times of Ezra Pound and T. S. Eliot. Keats was skilled in short poems and his odes are highly crafty and have reached to a summit. His own life-long regret was that he had not been able to become a poet “for all time”. The causes of this, if considered from the topological perspectives, are that he had not found the equivalent and varying but different forms of thematic or aesthetical mechanical topological spaces. Hence the regretful sighing of “whose name was writ in water”.

Keywords： long poem; Topological Space; Keats;Endymion

OnJohnKeats’sEscapefromIndividualityintheTwoOdesintheContextofComparativePoetics/NANJianchongWANGJiaqi

Abstract： Based on shared values concerning the ideas about literary creation, writer’s talents, and critical views of Liu Xie and John Keats, this paper attempts to figure out how Keats achieves the organic unity of Beauty and Truth in his “Ode to a Nightingale” and “Ode on a Grecian Urn”. They both emphasize the importance of emotion and imagination in literary creation governed by inner restriction of rationality. Also, they intentionally or unintentionally imply the absence of the author and the presence of the reader in their poetics. The two odes seem to constantly dissolve and reconstruct contradictory elements of poetry, author, and reader through interaction between fantasy and reality, transiency and eternity, time and space, truth and fiction, implicity and explicity, visibility and invisibility, and statics and dynamics.

Keywords： poetics; imagination; rationality; compatibility; escape from individuality

“DietoLive”:AnAnalysisofRebirthArchetypeinEndymion/WUZhichun

Abstract： Jung thinks that literature works are the production of collective consciousness. Archetype images are given new cultural meanings through their reappearance and reproduction in literature structures. Jung divides rebirth archetype into five kinds. Keats’s death philosophy——die to live——is presented in the four kinds of rebirth archetype appearing inEndymion. The realistic value of Keats’s death philosophy covers the following four points: 1. To face death in calmness and a positive way； 2. To regard dreams as a good medicine to face death； 3. To achieve immortality through death.

Keywords： archetype；rebirth archetype；Endymion；die to live

WorldWarI,Body,andBestiality:T.S.Eliot’sThreeEarlyPoemsRevisited/HUANGQiang

Abstract： Drawing upon Eliot’s biographical information during World War I, this study contextualises his three wartime poems——“Sweeney Among the Nightingales” “Sweeney Erect” and “A Cooking Egg”—— and explores the relations between the bodily imagery in the three poems and their contemporary historical context. In the three poems, the connection between the human body and its bestiality is highlighted, with the human bodies being bestialised. By doing so, Eliot broods on the interaction between the human being and the war, and suggests that the theme of war has entered his wartime poems, increasing their cultural value and intellectual depth.

Keywords： T. S. Eliot; World War I; body; bestiality; early poems

TwoSidesofEzraPound’sImitationofWaltWhitman’sFreeVerseinTheCantos/GUOYingjie

Abstract： Free verse/vers libre has distinct characteristics and unique developing history.Walt Whitman’sLeavesofGrassand Ezra Pound’sTheCantosare both models of its kind. Whitman’s free verse, as an American literary tradition, has influenced Pound’s poetry in obviously three aspects: (1) Poetic rhythm, metre and lyric modes; (2) Colloquial expressions and open structures; (3) Populist beliefs and moral consciousness. However, Pound’s imitation of Whitman’s free verse also reflects his ambivalent attitudes and “anxiety of influence”. Pound’s vers libre has integrated the Imagist’s artistic features, and thus embodies the very qualities of modernism.

Keywords： Whitman; Pound;LeavesofGrass;ChapterofPoetry

UndertheAllopatricSky:The“AfricanSentiment”intheCreationofGumilev/WUXiaoxiaLIUShasha

Abstract： Gumilev was an outstanding poet of Russian Silver Age and the founder of Akmeizm. His personality was romantic and he liked to find inspiration in the journey. He had wandered through Africa, Asian and his footprints extended all over the ancient cities of France, Italy and other European countries. Mad pursuit of romantic personality gradually evolved into a significant feature of his poetry——“Exotic”. As a great romantic poet, his “The wandering Muse” passed through the “Exotic sky” and was eager to get Oriental mysterious primitive culture and religious legends into the capsule in order to get rid of the dark reality and look for the ideal of life and the ideal of pure land.

Keywords： Gumiliov; exotic; Egypt; Abyssinia