Stéphane Mallarmé: a Leading Poet of Pursuing Perfection

Stephane Mallarme,one of the leading poets of modern French modernism and symbolism,previously unconsciously followed the theme and style set by Charles Baudelaire.His Hillodiard announced the forthcoming of Mallarme's own writing style,and together with the later L'apres-midi d'un faune,it symbolized a new starting point and the coming of Mallarmian Era in symbolistie poetry.Mallarme's aesthetic in poetry can be fully described in two wings,for the one thing,Mallarme regarded poetry as the highest and prevailing arts,he believed that music could gain best indicative and symbolic effects;for the other,he insisted that bewilderment should forever exist in poetry and that the goal of literature is no other than to call for something,thus the ultimate goal of this world was but to write a book of perfection.Mallarme reassured these and practiced them with his poems.This makes him a poet of acme,who has greatly influenced modern poetry in France,China,and even world wide.