Interpretation of Poetry by J. Brodsky in the Context of the Philosophy Tao Te Ching

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10.2991/icpcs-19.2019.88How to use a DOI?

Keywords

J. Brodsky, poetry, Tao Te Ching, philosophy, spirit

Abstract

To explore the essence of Eastern and Western literature and philosophy and to draw inspiration for the creation of works, this paper compares works of the Western postmodernist poet J. Brodsky and Chinese classical philosophy Tao Te Ching based on the theory of comparative literature. Tracing back to the Russian “Silver Age” when there was a focus on Lao-Tze’s philosophy and combining the life of J. Brodsky, this paper analyzes the two works from the perspective of philosophy and art. The study concludes that there are similarities in the poetics of space and time, the philosophy about conflict (dialectics of Lao-Tze and antinomy of J. Brodsky) exceeds the opposition between Chinese and Western cultures in the traditional sense in exploring the themes about life and death, light and shadow, existence and nothingness, and reflects the interlink and confluence between Eastern and Western literature in the concepts of "Tao", “nature”, and “return”.

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© 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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AU  - Yixian Zhang
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