Abstract

Virginia Woolf, one of the famous modernist literary figures of the twentieth century, is not only a representative personage of the stream-of-consciousness novel, but also a unique writer to describe novel in the poem. According to the poetry, she finds the breakthrough in poem’s abstraction, macroscopic and elegance and steps on the path of poetic novel, breaking through the conventional literary modes and writing The Waves as a major contribution in the art of fiction. The Waves contains the Virginia Woolf’ s ingenuity of artistic ideas, such as the language with poem’s rhythm, the monologue with poem’s connotation and the image with poem’s symbolization, fully displaying the charm between poem and novel. The Waves is Virginia Woolf’ s most experimental work, marking a giant leap in her creation of novel. The analysis of the poetic novel in The Waves will help to bring out the deep meaning of the novel.

Keywords: stream-of-consciousness; poetic novel; monologue; symbolic artistic conception 

Contents

Abstract

摘要

1. Introduction-1

2. Literature Review-2

3. An Interpretation of Poetic Art in The Waves-3

3.1 Poetic Novels-3

3.2 Poetic Monologue-5

3.3 Symbolic Artistic Conception-6

3.3.1 Artistic conception and creation-7

3.3.2 The characters’ image-8

4. Conclusion-10

Works Cited-13