The Anxiety Writing in Ode to Marriage

DOI

10.2991/assehr.k.201215.349How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Ode to Marriage, the arranged marriage, the separation anxiety, the survival anxiety, the philosophy of anxiety

Abstract

Ode to Marriage, as a valuable piece of oral literary work, is a typically representative narrative poem created by Lisu. It portraits Lisu people’s comprehension towards love and marriage in details and conveys their mode of thinking about marriage. This paper aims at analyzing the reflection of the protagonists’ anxiety that constructs an exceptional narration integrated with cultural, psychological and philosophical contexts. The anxiety about arranged marriage is exhibited in three aspects. Physical reaction, spiritual reaction and solution-seeking action reflect their anxiety combined with loneliness, weakness, depression, determination, fear and sense of guilt. Secondly, the separation anxiety includes two sides, namely, the temporary separation between lovers and the separation from parents. Thirdly, the survival anxiety is involved with hindrances on the way and the land issue. Finally, the philosophy of anxiety reveals anxiety is not a complicatedly psychological process but an integrated reflection of neurological symptoms anxiety, reality anxiety and existence anxiety.

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© 2020, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Na Zhao
AU  - Junyang Wu
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2020/12/18
TI  - The Anxiety Writing in Ode to Marriage
BT  - Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Education, Language, Art and Inter-cultural Communication (ICELAIC 2020)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 299
EP  - 304
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.201215.349
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.201215.349
ID  - Zhao2020
ER  -