When it comes to folk poets and folk poems, we will think of peasant poet Wang and worker poet Huang, red flag ballads in the period of "* *", and "poems" that appeared around 1976 in Tomb-Sweeping Day. The creation mode of these poems is basically "folk song style", and the sentence pattern is mainly five or seven words, which still belongs to the category of old-style poems. Yu Xiuhua's poems are truly new poems. Please see: "You don't know how good those fantasies are/how much human dust it takes to cover up a woman's bloody but still shining affection"; "These beautiful things seem to take me on the road to spring/so I keep the snow in my heart again and again/they are too white, too close to spring" ... This kind of poetry is not only new in language and rhythm, but also modern in thinking mode and psychological state, and only a new poetic style can convey them properly. The artistic consanguinity of this poetic mode is close to Ai Qing and Dai Wangshu, and it goes straight to Yongming Zhai, Tang Yaping and Ye Zhang, but it is far from Xintianyou in northern Shaanxi or Lingnan love songs. This shows that new poetry can go deep into the grass roots and become the spiritual nutrition and artistic resources of the people at the bottom, and new poetry has established an unbreakable blood relationship with the people at the bottom. In recent years, more and more people think that the appearance of new poetry is a mistake, which is incompatible with the land of China and the people of China. In the face of Yu Xiuhua's poems, should this argument be corrected?
Yu Xiuhua's poems are also different from those he has worked for in recent years. Most of the poems about "we" work as spokesmen, conveying the voices of people like "we", while Yu Xiuhua's poems give a unique voice of "I" as an individual life. She did it consciously. She said, "Writing poetry is a very personal matter." "I am very self-centered and don't care much about what they (others) think." "What is poetry ... it's just an emotional jump or sinking ... it's just a crutch when a person walks unsteadily in a rickety world. "The formation of this poetic concept is related to her unique living conditions, including her unique illness and the resulting marital pain, that is, the so-called' misfortune makes a poet' and' pain makes a poet'. The love poems she wrote are not only self-contained, but also the descriptions of her father, snow and moonlight. " I long for an unexpected snow thicker than death/it will suddenly come and pour all the hatred/... Oh, Snow, this prophet, this hypocrite, this helpful traitor/I want it to build a grave for me where weeds can't grow. "This feeling of snow can be copied and imitated?
A few years ago, there was a hype about "pear-shaped" poetry, which made people laugh as a gimmick and a lively scene. Yu Xiuhua's poems are different from others. After media reports cause onlookers, poetry lovers will savor her poems carefully. She did write many good poems, some of which are really worth appreciating. For example, in the brewing of poetry, she can better handle the relationship between inspiration and conception; In the tempering of language, she achieved the unity of simplicity and strangeness; In the lyrical way, she achieved the combination of image and direct expression. Some of her poems expressing taboo subjects (such as sex) are also worthy of attention, because such subjects are still unfamiliar in the field of poetry, but she has successfully dealt with them in the form of poetry. In Ai Qing's words, she "conquered" such taboo new subjects in the form of poetry. For example, her "Crossing Half of China to Sleep with You" and "My Dog is a Little Witch" (in which details such as "Calling for Bed" are written) can not only arouse peeping tom's curiosity, but also make serious discussions in many aspects in the poetry appreciation class. For example, how does the former combine small things with the big background, and how does the latter match people and dogs to calm their grief and indignation? Isn't it very durable?
I wish Yu Xiu Huaneng to write more and better poems, but I am worried that she will lose her innocence and aura in thinking and psychology after entering the role of "poet". However, even if she assumes the worst, even if she does not make a breakthrough, she should not be forgotten by the new history of poetry with her existing contribution.
(The author is a professor at Shandong Normal University)