Huang Zunxian advocates "the revolution in poetry" and "I write my mouth by hand". In order to express "what the ancients didn't have, what they didn't have", Huang Zunxian: Poems on Earth: A Grass Preface. It is the forerunner of the vernacular revolution in China's poetry and points out the direction of the times for the renewal, creation and development of poetic images. His overseas business travel creation clearly reflects the influence of the development of modern European science on human living environment and daily life. Compared with the images and metaphors in traditional poetry, it is quite different. For example, Liang Qichao thinks it is the first? Quot Under the banner of "Poetic Revolution", the four poems "Today's Parting" are about ships, trains, telegrams, photos and relative scenes between day and night in the eastern and western hemispheres, with the subtitle "What the ancients didn't have". Clock? Voice "? The "light balloon" and the "wheel" of "ten thousand weeks in an instant" are both products of the development of modern science and technology. The first part of "Today's Parting" is: "Don't turn like a wheel, a moment is 10,000 weeks. Seeing two wheels galloping will increase your worries. There were mountains and rivers in ancient times, and there were cars and boats in ancient times. Cars and boats carry the freedom to leave and move. Today's boat ride, strive to leave sorrow. You should not plan ahead and know what you need. As soon as the bell rings in time, it stops instantly. Although there are thousands of shackles of Qian Qian, they move like fingers. There is no wind ahead, and there is no fear of stones. The sender hasn't returned yet, so you will come down in one day. The shadows are gone, and the smoke waves are lingering. What's the speed of going? Will you stay? When you want to come back, release a light balloon. "They all reflect the object and life reality in the field of modern western scientific knowledge, and have begun to participate in the image renewal of China's modern poems. If we compare Wang Yun, a master of ancient style in the late Qing Dynasty, with A Farewell to Today, the trace of this new image change may be more prominent. Who is Wang who is 15 years younger than Huang Zunxian? Cloud inherits the image of traditional poetry, and almost all poems use the old expressions about women's thinking in Tang and Song Dynasties: heartbroken, Tianya, Luo Shang, floating clouds and empty curtain.
See Wang Yun's "Farewell to Today": Spring will not come for five days,/Peach blossoms will bloom. /Open the curtains and watch the east wind. /it hurts me to be far away and near. /Your heart is broken,/My body is getting old,/My embroidered clothes are worn in early spring. /Sorrow is like a drizzle, even tobacco. /Last year, I left Yingying. /This year, Lin Ying flew elsewhere. /What's wrong with weeping willows? /Flocculation comes from the wind. /the sky is full of clouds and full moon,/endless thoughts are still empty. Among them, the phrase "Worry is like a drizzle, even tobacco" comes directly from He Zhu's Jade Case in the Northern Song Dynasty: "How much leisure?" There's a smoke all over the city, Huang Meiyu. "With the writing of" Today's Separation ",there is no new creation. Huang Zunxian's related works, including Climbing the Tower of Paris and Journey to the Foggy Capital of London, etc. , all show some artistic pursuit of image innovation to varying degrees, and the description of modern scientific and technological images is one of the outstanding performances. ?
However, Huang Zunxian's scientific and technological images and life landscapes basically remain in the natural portraits and objective descriptions of foreign scenery, and do not involve the humanistic trend of thought established since the Western Renaissance, let alone go deep into the realm of the universe and life, the living state of society and self and spiritual freedom to reveal people's modern consciousness and feelings. For example, the photo telegraph in Farewell to Today is still just the old sentiment of leaving people and thinking about women, which has not lost the interest of traditional literati to a great extent, and can even be said to be essentially "its trace remains unchanged." Money: dreams are bitter poems. Therefore, these images in Huang Zunxian's works are related to scientific and technological life, but there is still a big gap compared with modern poetic images.