Wang Guowei: the Potential Pioneer of the Philosophical Spirit of Chinese New Poetry

The philosophical spirit of Chinese which questions another world beyond this world is different from the traditional thinking of Harmony between man and nature. This philosophical spirit was founded by Wang Guowei. Wang Guowei realized the core issue of Western philosophy-metaphysics, his poetic thought strictly in accordance with his philosophy is that poetry and philosophy are the means by which the truth is manifested. His poetry practiced the ideal of his own poetic thinking. His poetic thought belongs to the scope of modern spiritual life and should belong to New Poetry in broad terms. The philosophical spirit of has been advancing along the metaphysical direction guided by Wang Guowei. The studying of the aesthetic thought of New Poetry had already begun in the period of Poetic Revolution, but Poetic Revolution had not involved philosophy.Lu Xun's Devil Force Theory, Breaking Evil Sound Theory and other poetic works, is supported by Western philosophy and also clearly present in a purely philosophical concept of the Metaphysics, but Wang Guowei's philosophical concept is more thorough and more systematic than Lu Xun's. Moreover, the poetic writings of Wang Guowei had been written earlier than that of Lu Xun. Wang Guowei wrote poetry in addition to the poetic theory. So the pioneer of the philosophical spirit of Chinese is Wang Guowei.