著者

藤田 一美

出版者

美学会

雑誌

美学 (ISSN:05200962)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.29, no.4, pp.p42-57, 1979-03

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A famous Chinese poet, Su Shi, left us an Ode to Chi Bi, which is regarded as a famous ancient battlefield by him. But Chi Bi, where he lived as an exile, was not the ancient battlefield, and he most probably knew this historical fact. On this point we can explicitly find one of the greatest differences between the history and the poetry, i.e., the difference between the historical reality and the poetic reality, which was already and positively uttered by Aristotle. Su Shi said that the poem was made through <Rong hua> (founding). The poetry makes the poem from the everyday (or historical) happenings (or facts) as <materia>. If the usual world is only <materia>, it always remains poetically <chaos>, so far as it is not formalized (or realized) by the poet. In this sense the poet has <causa formalis> in himself. If it is so, on what ground can the poem have its superior reality? Why can we experience the poetic world? Su Shi did not question in this way. According to Plato, we have the destiny to know our world through <eidos> (forma). In other words the world is either way (historically or poetically) the linkage of <eidos> or meaning. The poet makes the poetic world through the invention of a new unified linkage of the meaninig. In this sense the poet is a little <demiourgos> (creator).