Abstract:
Poetry of the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression (1931—1945) vividly reflects the history of the Chinese people's arduous struggle and is characterized by a distinctive rhetoric of political poetics discourse. From the May Fourth Movement to the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, modern Chinese poetry achieves a literary ethical shift from individualism to collectivism, an elevation of the poetic realm from self-liberation to national liberation, and an expansion of the literary value from human self-awareness to defending human justice. The practice of political poetics enables poetry to break through the aesthetic category of traditional lyric poetry and possess the poetics characteristics that combine performative action and artistic expression. Poetry of the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression accomplishes the imaginative construction of a modern national community through the dissemination of the square. The recitation poetry the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression is a language art that calls for action. It is a very popular "action poetry" in poetry of the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, transforming the poetry from a "visual text" written by individuals into an "audio-visual event" shared by the group. In their mobility and battlefield walks, the poets write about the national war of resistance with embodied experiences, reflecting the deep interaction between literary practice and national salvation. Poetry of the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression achieves the mobilization of the war with the maximum appeal of sound. Based on vernacular spoken language, it explores a diverse and open power rhythm and constructs the mass sound poetics of cultural resistance against Japanese aggression. The study of the political discourse and rhetorical features of poetry is of non-negligible significance in the era of global turbulence and great changes in the world.