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Chinese poetics since Confucius has paid great attention to honesty and moral feelings in poems. Under the strong influence of the Confucian concept that people should be in awe of ghosts and gods and keep a distance from them, Chinese poets rarely take the supernatural phenomena as their subject matter. This is why, in the long history, we do not have epics like Homer’s and Iliad,Dante’s Divine Comedy,or Milton’s We hardly have poems praising the ancient legendary heroes, or the ones describing the Genesis and the hell on earth. All the above-mentioned poems and subjects are about the supernatural. They do not agree with the Chinese aesthetic requirement, which emphasized human relations. What the Chinese poets cared about is to help ex press the common sense or complaints, to harmonize the relations between liege lords and common civilians, and to try to suppress any ideas that were/are not expected by the rulers. Nevertheless, that does not mean that Chinese classic poems and modem
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Chinese poetics since Confucius has paid great attention to honesty and moral feelings in poems. Under the strong influence of the Confucian concept that people should be in awe of ghosts and gods and keep a distance from them, Chinese poets rarely take the supernatural phenomena as their subject matter. This is why, in the long history, we do not have epics like Homer’s and Iliad,Dante’s Divine Comedy,or Milton’s We hardly have poems praising the ancient legendary heroes, or the ones describing the Genesis and the hell on earth. All the above-mentioned poems and subjects are about the supernatural. They do not agree with the Chinese aesthetic requirement, which emphasized human relations. What the Chinese poets cared about is to help ex press the common sense or complaints, to harmonize the relations between liege lords and common civilians, and to try to suppress any ideas that were/are not expected by the rulers. Nevertheless, that does not mean that Chinese classic poems and modem
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