A Study of Some Myanmar Traditional Poems from the Perspective of Western Aesthetic Theories

Aesthetics is generally known as the philosophical study of the principles of beauty, especially in art. Aesthetics has been studied systematically.in the West since l9" century though there were many art theories since around 400 B.C. On the Contrary, there were no systematic studies of art in the East until 19th century, but Some artistic principles for judging the standard of the art object since in early days. In the case of Myanmar, the Rasa theories which adopted from Indian treatise of art have been used as the criteria of the Myanmar literary works since 14th century. However, there are some unique characteristics of Myanmar .aesthetics can be found out in the Myanmar literature. In this paper, it will be focused on some Myanmar 'Traditional Poems ill which we can study the unique sense of Myanmar aesthetic perspectives and its theoretical standard of artistic representation. As the contribution of this paper, having more understanding to the essence of Myanmar Traditional Poems and highlighting the new approach to study the Myanmar Rasa theories can be raised