An Analysis of Poetic Referent from the Perspective of Philosophy of Language

Abstract

For foreign poetry, it is often seen as a practice of linguistic infi nity, which is still unknown to poetry. It is a power of language extension that has almost no other function besides expressing the original meaning and cannot be named with certainty. Western philosophers have repeatedly criticized the meaning and career of poetry, even believing that it only records some things that are diffi cult to express in language, or serves as a consolidating carrier that is diffi cult to describe in language, in order to endow poetry with its own political and philosophical signifi cance. Modern poetry based on Platonization has a greater connotation.