A modern poet is not only familiar with reading the literature textbooks required by the Chinese Department (these books are not difficult for a high school graduate like me to read, these textbooks are just a few boxes of reference books), but more importantly, it is more difficult for us to really understand these books, which is not as simple as reading. We also need to spread the reading books of philosophy, religion, history, geography, economics and other humanities closely related to the history of literature in a larger area. We should face the real world to practice, compare and think. Only when we have a comprehensive thinking about the three worlds can we accumulate wealth and avoid the poverty of "pretending to be worried about creating new words" in modern poetry creation.
Without independent thinking and thinking about the three worlds, and without mature lyrical spirit, the enthusiasm and inspiration of modern poetry is doubtful. The reason why modern poetry drools is not only the crude language of the works. Mr. Love said: Many poets can write hundreds of lines in one night, so the quality of fast food works can be imagined. "I know every Chinese character, but I don't know what to say when I piece it together." Mr. Love pointed out that the deconstruction of post-modern poetry and the characteristics of "saliva poetry" not only run counter to our belief in poetry, but also discourage ordinary readers.
A lot of words piled up, a lot of adjectives concentration camp, what can be described?
I quite agree with the four levels of the poet's realm summarized by the poet Mr. Love: First, express one's feelings, only express one's dreamy and romantic lyricism, imply infinity with limitation, and suggest oneself with self. The second is to emphasize social consciousness. However, he also reminded that poets should have a sense of social responsibility, but they are too inclined to social consciousness and ignore the artistic creation, lyricism and aesthetic pursuit of poetry. The result is either a political tool or a commercial advertisement. The third is to express the feeling of life and the pursuit of the meaning of life. This kind of poet is a thinking poet, and his poems sparkle with the wisdom of metaphysical thinking. Finally, the poet who is regarded as the highest state by love should not only have compassion for others, but also have the mind of the universe. His poems always show a kind of ultimate concern, that is, awakening to life and constantly questioning and questioning the meaning of life.
Let's take a look at some comments made by poets in Taiwan Province Province on "pure poetry", the highest realm of modern poetry: modern poetry pursues the purity of poetic quality. The Modern Poetry Society of Taiwan Province Province has listed "the purity of poetry" in its "six creeds", opposed the relegation of poetry to the vassal of ideology, and severely criticized "slogan poetry", "dogmatic poetry" and "leisure poetry". "Pure poetry" is to abandon the "impurities" in poetry. The key is to get rid of the shackles of ideology and find the value of poetry itself. Once modern poets get rid of the shackles of real politics and awaken their self-awareness, they will pay attention to the situation and destiny of modern people. They pushed their plight to the plight of all mankind.
Modern poets in Taiwan Province emphasize the intellectuality of poetry. "Intellectuality" is also one of the "six creeds" of modern poetry clubs. Ji Xian put "intellectuality" in a high position in modern poetry. He believes: "A major feature of modernism is anti-romanticism, attaching importance to intellectuality and rejecting emotional confession." The intellectuality of modern poetry can improve the quality of poetry, make poetry more pure, and make modern poetry avoid the overflow of sensibility and simple lyricism.
Mr. Yu Guangzhong believes that spoken language can enliven the language of poetry, but because spoken language is also rough, you don't have to open your mouth to produce poetry. Mr. Love believes that there are usually two choices for the language of modern poetry, one is the "life language" and the other is the more elegant and refined written language. The so-called "language of life" is true, refined, purified and pure Chinese. It does not exclude slang dialects, but it rejects drooling poems and nonsense. The "language of life" he used is to raise the vulgar spoken language popular in public places such as neighborhood markets to a higher level and make the voice of poetry become the vowel of life. The language of poetry is not only a carrier or symbol, but the breath and pulse of life.
Mr. Yang Kuanghan from the mainland also thinks that the problem of poetry lies in the closure of the poet's own knowledge system. The poet can't find the problems that people care about today. "China produces 50,000 to 60,000 poems a year, which is equivalent to 200 years of Tang poetry, but there are very few fine works."
We can often see that the context, artistic conception and atmosphere of many modern poems are basically in place in Sina's modern poetry network, but the content is all about lyricism and ideological traces in personal life (personal small-scale concern). There are many prose poems that don't pay attention to word selection. In fact, both classical poetry and modern poetry pay attention to creative skills such as refinement, jumping, rhetoric, condensation, symbol and contrast. To say the least, verbose language is piled up, just like a pale old woman, who can get up in the middle of the night to fall in love with spring and dance with Li Qingzhao's prostitutes without paying attention to people's livelihood and the future happy environment of her children. Whispering and physiological desires of young men and women of normal age; Pure "personal feelings" such as college students' unemployment, lack of talents, fatigue and pain of migrant workers need to be written into modern poems, and "poets" can also try to express them with more poetic skills. At least this is also the practice of modern poetry writing. The ratio of poems written by unpredictable self-study modern poems is at least three to one compared with works that can be preserved by unpredictable, that is to say, 60% of unpredictable works are a waste of practicing writing poems.
As an administrator of more than a dozen poetry circles, many blog poems don't want to appreciate at a glance. I feel that there are quite a few "famous poets" bragging about each other in the online poetry circle and selling personal poetry collections to compete for fame and fortune. I doubt the IQ of these famous poets and know that printed matter can't be sold. Why did you start? What should we do if modern poetry does not rely on the energy ability of poetry itself to attract readers' interest in reading? The Poet Walks Wan Li Road, The Poet Should Be Shameless, Sculpture Tour Exhibition, Declaring to Be a People's Poet, Printed matter on Coated Paper; A vulgar small circle "a gathering of poetry reading, taking photos and bragging to each other"; There is even more shameless "naked resignation Recitation" ... which can't solve the poverty and embarrassment of China's modern poetry. Are these strange images in China's modern poetry circles the sorrow of China literature? I'm not interested in definitions. I only hope that it is enough to see modern poems that shock me when I am doing routine "management work" in the modern poetry circle of Sina blog every day.
I can always satisfy this. Because I often meet talented online poets, hard-working and talented works. We are in an era of innovation and change in the artistic expression of modern poetry, and we have the peak of classical poetry in Tang Dynasty. We are also influenced by modernist literary thoughts such as symbolism, surrealism, modernism and post-modernism. We should be optimistic that Chinese mainland's modern poetry art is moving towards the vast space of post-modern art.