Recognition of the Epic Quality and Literariness of the Poetry on Angel Island from the Chinese Dimension

The poetry on Angel Island has been considered the founding text of American literature and history by both the and American scholars,given prominence to the significant influence of its unique Chinese American sensibility on the construction of American identity.Nevertheless,the current research involuntarily altered the fact that as the creation of early new immigrants,the poetry on Angel Island was also the path-finding text of the literature in North America.This paper has been re-imbedded the perspective and holds the view that its epic consisted in the grief and melancholy discourse as well as the harboring of the ideological trend of cultural nationalism.In the excluded heterogeneous context,the poets of Angel Island had found a mented world with the foundation of cultural pattern of integrated home and country and the medium of selective traditional literary culture.Meanwhile,the literariness lays on the fact that as a collective folk text,the exquisite poems demonstrated immigrants' abundant and vivid sensibilities through the usage of the bi xing,allusion and other characteristic literary techniques.In addtion,the unneglectable non-poetic quality of the poems should be apprehended from the poetic history of the self-transformation of traditional poetry after the Poetic Revolution in modern age.