The Waves is considered Woolf’ s most difficult and high modernistic novel。 It is a beautifully stylized, poetical work that alternates descriptive pastoral passages with sets of soliloquies by six characters。 It is a symbol of Virginia Woolf’ s poetic novels, using rising and decline of the sun or the waves to make a metaphor as the process of people’s life from birth to death and combining with the art style of novels and poems to enrich the novel so that she can fully express the great theme of cosmologist life and show her broad artistic verve。 The relationships between man and nature, man and destiny, and the human’s dream and illusion get through six people to reflect and let out multicolored luster。 It contains not only the writer’s philosophical consideration to life, but also a challenge to the aesthetics of fiction and the mode of traditional narrative。 The Waves shows six characters: Bernard, Susan, Rhoda, Neville, Jinny and Louis。 Also important is Percival, though readers never hear him speak in his own voice。 Virginia Woolf describes the process of life by the view in a day from sunrise to sunset, using the macro view of abstract generalization ability of poetry to turn the ego into the greater self and enter the lofty aesthetic artistic conception。 Her constant questions involving the fundamental significance of human existence and always haunting in characters, for example, Bernard asked: "What I was?" (Wu Yunxie, 2013:72)Virginia Woolf strives for the general form and meaning of life by the poetic novel, using its rhythm, connotation and symbolization。

 The Waves not only describes the short life and the multidimensional reality, it also shows the unique structure of the art of the work itself。 It is a new breakthrough in the two different styles of poetry and fiction, so that we can see Virginia Woolf' s artistic style, creative style, and the pursuit of the literature and art。

2。Literature Review

When Woolf is close to fifty years old, The Waves is published, and just as her creativity is in an active period。 Previously, she has accumulated rich experience in the experimental road of her novel。 After its publication, The Waves did not arouse much attention, because it was so hard to understand。 When modernism novel came to the stage, The Waves made Woolf become one of the main characters in the movement of the modernist literature。