Abstract: Abyss and saints are an important complex in Haizi’s poetry. Abyss is an metaphor of the dark night for human beings’survival; facing this abyss, Haizi considers himself as a“saint”. He classifies abyss and saints as maternal and paternal temperaments and he acts as both saints. During the land Utopian period,he pursues the poetics of“substantial is ontology”, hoping to discover the hidden truth in the existence, to find the longings from the souls, and to build a poetic home with both material and spiritual substance. His represen? tative poem Wheat Fields is full of maternal quality, but the illusory nature of the home fails to truly solace him. During the sun Utopian period, Haizi turns to his inner primal strength and indulges in the Dionysian revelry. The saint becomes the superman; Bacchus kills Phoebus. Full of the paternal temperament, the poet hopes, through the grand epic of the sun, to get closer to the truth in an artistic manner and to realize his dream of becoming the emperor of poetry. Whichever temperament, in front of nihilistic existence, he fails and his illu?sionary death becomes true.

Key words: Haizi, poetics, the abyss of existence, saint, redemption