It seems that after Xu Zhimo, Haizi and Gu Cheng, the poets in China are not very famous. Occasionally there are books such as the annual selection of modern poems. But it tastes strange when turned out, so it's better not to look at it. We like reading youth novels, ghost novels and the like now. Things with this theme are more pleasing. Occasionally by bus, you can see young artists chewing such novels like sponges. This seems to be a relatively normal phenomenon. Suppose you see someone reading a book of poems, it is estimated that more than 95% of them will be considered as mental derangement. The literature of modern poetry seems to be heresy. Only the mentally ill can read poetry. However, people who write poems don't think so. In front of the previous classics, the previous classics are too classic to surpass. Just like Tang poetry and Song poetry are hard to surpass. What we have done today is nothing more than copying our predecessors and moaning without illness.
Nowadays, modern poetry occupies a very low position in bookstores, and it is often difficult for large bookstores to find such books as modern poetry. Some of them were published by some people at their own expense, which can be said to be neglected. Some bookstores can't find modern poetry at all. This is a great blow to modern poetry lovers. The dilemma brought by the big environment is also the dilemma of the creator. At the same time, it brings gray influence to creation. There are really few modern good poems. This is a fact. It is a fact that modern poetry does not make money. It's not surprising that people are watching, but it's also true. I remember last year, People's Literature Publishing House published a set of modern poems, which included poems by more than a dozen poets. This is a good thing for the revival of modern poetry. But it is also a drop in the bucket. It just awakened people's nostalgia for modern poetry. Because in the 1980s and 1990s, modern poetry rose for some time. But it is also a flash in the pan. Because there are too few fine products. There is too much rubbish in the poetry circle now. A while ago, there was a spoof of modern poetry on the Internet. Can something written in extremely disgusting language be called modern poetry? It seems that in some concepts, as long as there is a broken chapter, it is modern poetry. That modern poem is too simple. There are too many people who can write it. This is really a great slander on modern poetry!
But there are objective reasons why modern poetry is ignored by people. I remember when I was studying in middle school, although there were chapters of modern poetry in Chinese books, they were all optional and didn't need to be tested. If you are interested, pick two songs and read them. If you don't understand them, you won't read them Even the teacher can't say why, let alone the students. We all learn ancient poems. Classics are too profound for us. Modern poetry seems to be a burden and looks neither fish nor fowl. Later, I went to college to make up a neglected course based on my personal interests. Read China's modern poems as well as foreign modern poems. But I found that there are too few classics in China. A limited number of poems were also written by dead poets. Can't the living write good poems? There was a time when poetry was associated with death. Poets committed suicide in succession. The appearance of this phenomenon makes people have a bad impression on poetry. Poetry should be a style of expressing emotion and cultivating sentiment. Some of them are reserved. This is also a feature of China's ancient poems. Why do you fall into the strange circle of death, which is daunting? A large part of the reason is that the poet is neglected, not given due respect and status, and regarded as a heresy, which in the long run causes psychological depression, psychological pressure and psychological deviation. While people criticize poets in succession, excellent poets insist that writing should be more painful. Creation itself is happy. But the consequence is pain. How pathetic is this? The misfortune of China poets can also be seen.
But we still have to write modern poetry. As the old poet Ai Qing once said: China people still prefer poetry. Perhaps because of this reason, our poet can't give up, but he must persist and continue to write. In the face of creative difficulties, we should cheer for ourselves. We can't give up because it is difficult to surpass. Good works will often appear, but the number is small. But we can also regard modern poetry as a way to express our feelings. Don't write poetry calmly, with any utilitarian heart. Although there are few readers, it does not mean that there are no readers. Someone always reads poetry! When you are scolded, you are cheeky; when you are praised, you are happy.