The English Translation of Indeterminacies in Tao Yuanming's Poetry from the Perspective of Reception Aesthetics Theory

Abstract

Tao Yuanming, known as "the ancestor of reclusive poets" and "the originator of pastoral poetry", occupies an important position in the history of Chinese poetry. Like many excellent poems, Tao's poems also use a large number of blank spaces, which makes his poems concise but meaningful. From the perspective of the concept of "indeterminacies" in the theory of reception aesthetics, combined with the characteristics of the blank spaces in Tao’s poems, this paper classifies them into: linguistic indeterminacies, syntactic indeterminacies, imagery indeterminacies and cultural indeterminacies, analyzes and compares it with the original text and translation, and discusses the English translation methods of blank in ancient Chinese poetry.