"Defamiliarization" means making familiar things strange.
Writing a composition generally uses familiar words to "choose words and make sentences" and write familiar things and things. Creative writing, on the other hand, uses distant words to collide to form a new way of expression-two unfamiliar words, which have nothing to do with each other and suddenly make sense when combined.
Do you know what is the shortest article in the world?
This article is called "fate" and has only one word: "net".
This is a poem written by the famous poet Kosuke Kitajima in 1980s.
It couldn't be shorter.
This ultra-short poem is undoubtedly unique. Whether this poem makes sense or not, we can continue to study it later. "Net" and "life" adopt the way of "* * *", that is, the same sex-life is intertwined with various interpersonal networks, and the complex relationship between people is like a spider web. Now people are used to using "net" to express interpersonal relationships in society, such as "network".
Before Bei Dao wrote this poem, people didn't imagine the relationship between society and people so concretely. This is the creative expression of poetry, and ordinary people can also have this "existence" from "nothing". Bei Dao's poems vividly present a social form that people have only vaguely thought of but have not yet said. It can also be said that this is "thinking in images."