What is misty poetry?

Misty poetry, also known as the poetry of the new poetry tide, is the product of the poetry movement of the new poetry tide. Because of its opacity and fuzziness in artistic form, it is called misty poetry. The so-called "new poetry tide" refers to a trend of heroic poetry in China's contemporary humanistic literature, which originated in the late 1960s and early 1970s. After entering the 1980s, it had a great influence on the poetry circle and even the whole literary world, and finally brought a profound ideological change to the history of contemporary Chinese literature. The new poetry tide is used to define a kind of ideological tendency and trend conveyed by poetry works and theories, and it is the forerunner of China's contemporary humanistic literature trend of thought. And "misty poetry" refers to a kind of poetry works belonging to this trend of thought, focusing on describing the artistic characteristics of this kind of poetry works. The trend of China's contemporary humanistic literature emerged in the new poetry tide, and Misty Poetry is his first literary work. Therefore, "misty poetry" should not be regarded as a school of poetry, but as a literary trend of thought. Literary trend of thought refers to a trend of thought formed in literature in a certain historical period in order to adapt to the changes of the times and society. The rise and development of a literary trend of thought always collides with the old trend of thought to varying degrees. Therefore, when "misty poetry" entered the historical stage, there was a new poetry movement, from the underground creation in the 1960s and 1970s to the public publication of "misty poetry" in the late 1970s. This movement ended with the awakening of human subjectivity defeating the theocratic ideology of the Cultural Revolution, which is also the victory of humanistic literature over the cultural autocracy of the Gang of Four. It broke all kinds of literary shackles since the founding of the People's Republic of China and inherited the tradition of new poetry since the May 4th Movement. Based on this, we should make a reasonable evaluation of "misty poetry", not only to judge its significance and value from its artistic innovation, but also to bring it into the movement and development of the whole literary trend of thought and grasp its position and role in the history of literature. Therefore, our confirmation of the significance and value of "misty poetry" is essentially the confirmation of the significance and value of the new poetry movement.