On Feng Zhi's Self-identity in His Sonnets
"The Empirical Self"is a unique and rare special self type explored by Feng Zhi when he was in Germany in pursuit for the ways to revitalize modern China and new poetry.This theory,under the influence of German culture represented by Rilke,is the key to understand his Sonnets,and is characterized by the representation of self-realization:the construction of modern cognitive poetics, recognition of the modern overall time concept and discovery of otherness relations like the one between human and nature.And it underwent a reconfiguration in the cultural context with collective identity as the core during the Anti– Japan war years and under such ideological influence as Goethe's"Metamorphosis".To investigate the course of Feng Zhi's mental shift during the period in 1930sand 1940scan help us reflect on the profound issues of self-construction among modern Chinese intellectuals.