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t, and also made the emotion impenetrable. 2.3 The inverse mentality also embodies in the orientation of aesthetic judgment which is to take ugliness as beauty Now, let us examine the third similarity between Poe and Meng Jiao. Ugliness is a mixture of consciousness of social life and the nature of natural matter which is relative to beauty. It is a personality explicit mark that death, cruelty, evil and viciousness in realistic life; Poverty, hunger and morbidity in the life; Despair and loneliness in mind; Fear in one's physiological sensation; Absurdity and ugliness in form and structure; and so on. Poe and Meng Jiao are those person who dare to face reality and life, and they can concentrate their experiences into imaginative language. They have courage. They are able to analyze ugliness. Once Hugo said, "I feel that everything in the world is unreasonable. Ugliness conresponds with beauty, evil is go together with kindness"(中南民族学院学报). Ugliness is a giant system that we are not acquaint. It harmonize with the whole natural world, but not with human beings. Look at the entirety, if something ugly partly, it will do coordination on the whole of natural society. It depends on kindness for existence, and it is indispensable in the universe. Ugliness should be a target for acquainting and reflecting in literary works. We cannot reflect beauty without ugliness. Rotan holds that: In natural world ugliness can appear the character of people and thing rather than beauty. He said," but only the power of character can achieve beauty of art."(中南民族学院学报) "the more ugly, the more beautiful"(中南民族学院学报). Therefore, ugliness is a category of beauty. It can reveal the state from life's other side. It can borden people's ken of recognizing things. In the point of aesthetic judgmrnt, ugliness show people aesthetic perception also partake of bitter pleasure. It is a joyness which acquires suffering hue. It has certain value in aesthetic judgment. It has elements of beauty. Because of the suffering in reality, those two poets had so many ugly things in the deep layer of mind, and made them engender strong desire in expression and creative passion. Ugliness became their focus and a target for writing, and form the trend of their aestheti c judgment. Therefore, they lay bare ugliness audaciously in large quantity. Most of Poe's works envelopped in horror, mystery and absurdity from setting to atmosphere. His method was to put his characters into unusual situations. Next, he would carefully describe their feelings of terror or guilt. Let us see several poems: The Lake-To[7] In the spring of youth it was my lot To haunt of the wide world a spot The which I could not love the less- So lovely was the loneliness Of a wild lake, with black rock bound, And the tall pines that towered around. The City In The Sea[8] No rays from the holy heaven come down On the long night-time of that town; But light from out the lurid sea Streams up the tunets silently- Gleams up the pinnacles far and free Up domes- up spires- up kingly halls- Up fanes- up Babylon- like walls Up shadowy long- forgotten bowers ... Furthermore, many Poe's tales of horror are known throughout the world. The greatest examples of this kind of story are The Pit and the Pendulum(1841), The Tell-Tale Heart(1843) and The Black Cat(1843). The