The true nature of poetry

prose title: true colors of poetry

Keywords: true colors of poetry

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? Guo Moruo once said two words: "Old poetry depends on dressing up, while new poetry depends on its true colors." ? Whether the brilliance of old poems depends on "dressing up" or not, let's not talk about it here, but "new poems depend on their true colors" is indeed the case. The meaning of Guo Moruo's speech at the beginning and other people's interpretation of it later focused on the difference between the artistic forms of new poetry and old poetry. ? However, the author believes that the key to the "true color" of new poetry lies in the true color of the poet, the true color of the poet's personality, character, thoughts and feelings. The emotional realm of the new poem is the condensation and perceptual manifestation of the poet's spiritual world. The expression of "I" in the poem of "expressing one's mind directly" is more striking than the image of "I" in the poem of "supporting things and expressing feelings". In this way, it cannot be said that the inherent beauty of the new poem is the inherent beauty of the poet. ? The expression of the poet's true beauty in new poetry does not require the poet to have the same emotional realm in many poems, which can be large or small, deep or shallow. Some of his poems have a noble beauty, while others can also show gentle beauty. He is good at eulogizing heroic achievements, and he can also be good at expressing his unique feelings about flowers and grass. As long as his spiritual world and aesthetic consciousness do not change, poems of different realms just show the richness of his "true colors" and the diversity of artistic styles. ? Any poet, as long as his spiritual world is dominated by truth, goodness and beauty, the emotional realm of any of his poems will inevitably present an atmosphere of truth, goodness and beauty, even if this poem makes people feel no excitement after reading, but only gives people a little enjoyment of beauty, which is still valuable for existence. ? Sima Qian once commented on Qu Yuan: "His words are subtle, his ambition is clean, his conduct is cheap, his words are small and his fingers are great, and his words are far-reaching. Its ambition is clean, so it is called object fragrance. It is cheap, so it is not allowed to be self-sufficient. " These words brilliantly expound the relationship between the poet's ideological quality and the performance of his works, and are also of great enlightenment to today's poets. ? Today's era requires poets to have a healthy, bright and open spiritual world. With the progress of the times and the changes of society, people's mental outlook is constantly updated, and their spiritual world is constantly explored and enriched. In addition, they have the subjective initiative to purify and sublimate their spiritual world when creating, and they can accurately grasp the special form of the spiritual world at every creative moment. This has to emphasize the poet's "extra-poetic" kung fu. ? Poets should be able to correctly understand society and life, and always actively coordinate the relationship between the times and "I" and the relationship between "I" and the public. Of course, we should also pay attention to correctly handling the relationship between "emotion" and "reason" in the process of creation. Correct ideology can only infiltrate into the poet's feelings quietly, which plays a subtle role in the purification and sublimation of feelings. If salt enters the water, but you know the taste of salt and don't see where the salt particles are; Reasoning is based on emotion, and people are based on emotion. If reason is better than emotion, and ideas are put into poetry and illustrated, even if a poem has some extremely correct ideas, it is "elegant and ruthless", which just cancels the artistic realm of poetry fundamentally and actually. like