关键词: 顺应论, 文学顺应性, 潜在读者, 语境顺应, 语言结构顺应, 文学策略

Abstract: Poetry is created along with linguistic communication as well as choices between a poet and his / her implied reader, which enables adaptation theory to possibly access to poetic criticism. Creating a poem is a process in which the poet makes linguistic choices and chooses the literary strategies in the cognitively environments formed continuously in the communication between the poem and the implied reader. The poets choices are usually based on the cognitive level of the implied readers and satisfied with the aesthetic appeal of the implied readers. It is the poets choices in linguistics and literary strategies that endure him with the literary adaptation which makes poetry distinguish from common language. If the process to create a poem is focused on, the literary adaptation of the poem will be traced by analyzing contextual correlates of adaptability; language structure of adaptability as well as the salience of adaptation embodying the poets choosing various literary strategies, so as to attempt to explore an adaptation theoretic approach to poetic criticism

Key words: adaptation theory, literary adaptation, implied reader, contextual correlates of adaptability, language structure of adaptability, the salience of adaptation