Literature:A Metaphysical Supplement and Subduement to Reality ——A Review of Nietzsche's Birth of tragedy

Two most important categories of Nietzsche's aesthetic and literature thoughts are Dionysus spirit and Apollo spirit. Dionysus art was regarded as the expression of the world and life's origin. Music stands a most important role in the Dionysus art, beause it conceived two kinds of Dionysus art:lyric and tragedy. Tragence of the tragedy comes from Dionysus' wisdom, which originates from music spirit. Function of tragedy is to give life a metaphysical consoliation and a sense of subduement of the reality. It's an art form to satisfy people's aesthetic need. Art is not just an imitation of nature, but a metaphysical supplement of it. Its fundamental function is to trancend and conquer nature.--These are the basic literary conceptions of Nietzsche.