What Is Evidential Poetics? A Cross-Cultural Poetic Paradigm Based on Auditory Embodiment and Objective Evidence

This paper constructs an internationally oriented theoretical framework of Evidential Poetics—an original poetic theory initiated by the author, a former composer—grounded in the dual dimensions of auditory embodiment and objective evidence. Distinct from Western empirical poetics that focuses on reader response and textual close reading, Evidential Poetics takes inner auditory perception as the core medium of poetic creation, enabling direct dialogue between the poet and natural landscapes such as snow-capped mountains and grasslands, and even capturing the imperceptible sounds of "flowers blooming". By integrating this composer’s auditory sensibility with verifiable objective evidence (acoustic frequencies, physical parameters, perceptual experiences), this theory breaks the predicament of contemporary poetry’s "vacuous lyricism", bridges the gap between scientific rationality and humanistic sensibility, and constructs a cross-cultural poetic language system that transcends linguistic and cultural barriers. This paper traces the theoretical origins of Evidential Poetics in the empirical poetic traditions of British poets such as T.S. Eliot, Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth, clarifies its core tenets, operational mechanisms and international academic value, and demonstrates its innovative significance as a 21st-century interdisciplinary poetic paradigm through the analysis of the author’s original unpublished poetic