An Argumentation on the Creation of Artistic Conception

Wang Guowei believes that the artistic conception is the essence of poetiy. The creation of artistic conception in a poem requires that the poet aesthetically taste things as well as his self so as to perceive the both inside out This is the phase of gestation for the creation of artistic conception. To achieve this purpose, Wang Guowei lays special emphasis upon TRUENESS, which calls for the poet's true and natural outlet of what is inside his innermost depth. Wang Guowei also put forwards a criterion called Bu Gei to appraise the language and allusions of the poem. Wang Guowei's Creation of Artistic Conception is a production out of the blend Sino-western literary theories.