July Poetry School is an important realistic poetry school in the history of modern literature in China. The rise of the July Poetry School in the bonfire of War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression spanned two historical stages: War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression and the War of Liberation. It is the longest-lasting and most influential literary school in this period.
The common characteristics of this school of poetry are: advocating the tradition of revolutionary realism and linking the aesthetic struggle embodied in poetry with people's social responsibility and combat tasks; Emphasize the development of subjective fighting spirit and actively influence and transform reality; Pursue the prose beauty of poetry in the form of free verse.
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Under the guidance and organization of Hu Feng's theory, the July Poetry School, with Ai Qing and Tian Tian as pioneers, gathered a large number of "new people" who created poems and named them after July magazine. Publications such as Hope, Poetry Ken, Poetry Creation, Earth and Breath are also their important semi-fan magazines and publishing fields.
These young poets are numerous and scattered all over the country. Their backbone members are Along (Chen Shoumei), Lu Yuan (Liu Renfu), Lu Dian, (Shi),,, Zou Difan, Peng Yanjiao,,, Fang Ran, Du Gu and so on. Most of their poems have been included in Hu Feng.
Attitude to life
Hu Feng's attitude towards life and poetic theory have strong guidance and appeal to them, which are directly reflected in their creation. Hu Feng believes that "the first duty of a realist is to take part in the battle, with his literary and artistic activities and all his actions", so that poetry can "jump in the torrent of the times". He advocated the unity of being a man and writing poetry, and asked poets to break into life as fighters and embrace the reality of blood and fire with full enthusiasm.
Insist on giving full play to the subjective fighting spirit in the struggle between the creative subject and the creative object, reveal the people's "trauma of spiritual slavery" and express the tragic truth of life. Hu Feng seeks to transform historical passion into "aesthetic desire" and make the sociological content of poetry obtain "corresponding and aesthetic mechanical expression".
Lvyuan later summarized the artistic position and creative method of the poetry school as: "Try to connect poetry with people, and connect the aesthetic struggle embodied in poetry with people's social responsibility and combat tasks, so as to affirm and inherit the tradition of China's free poetry."