What does Guo Xiaochuan think of poetry?

Guo Xiaochuan believes that "poetry must be strong". In his poems, his generosity and pride, his irresistible chanting, often go beyond his profound understanding and rational analysis of complex and changeable real life. Observing the reality from the perspective of a soldier and poet, starting from the major political issues in the real society, choosing the theme, and putting forward and answering the mental state, attitude towards life and moral sentiments that revolutionaries should have in different revolutionary stages is his consistent style of poetry creation. He believes: "Poets are first and foremost soldiers. We should look at the whole new era and arouse people's struggle with keen eyes. " Lyrics for the Sea, written in 1956, is a naked presentation of his warrior mind. Taking the "sea" as the symbol of revolution, the poet explored his mental journey of becoming a soldier and showed his inner struggle from disharmony to harmony. He believes that only by putting his limited life into infinite historical development can he get a brilliant life associated with history: "I want to be like a petrel/suck your milk/feed the sky deeper and wider than the sea;" /I want to bathe in your arms like the sunrise; /dyed the sea red with your own blood. " Guo Xiaochuan's poems, especially lyric poems, "originated from the heart of a loyal soldier who struggled for the cause of the motherland and the people all his life in the new century on the land of China."