The Poetic Aesthetics Born of the Grief: Borges’ What Can I Hold You With versus Hai Zi’s Wheat Field and Poet

Abstract

Borges and Haizi represent romantic poets in Argentina and China, respectively. Borges’ poem What Can I Hold You With depicts the poet’s poetic and passionate emotions in the pain of the failure of love. The poem Wheat Field and Poet by Haizi is like a question-and-answer dialogue. It expresses the deep communication between the poet and the field and the poet and himself in the confusion and pain. Both poems use many desolate images, and the poets vent their inner pain with sincere and warm language to achieve the effect of full of sincere beauty. However, the source of the pain of the two poets is not the same. While the other is crying that the world does not recognize his poetic skill, the first is weeping for love. Like the moon in his poetry, Borges‘ sadness was gentle and full of love. Haizi‘s sorrow, on the other hand, poured forth like hundreds of brilliant stars and the sun. The anguish that plagued the two poets was viewed differently by them. Both are full of hope, but one is warm and committed, while the other is real and modest. This essay will evaluate the similarities and contrasts between the two poems and the two poets.