Characteristics of He Jingzhi's Poems

He Jingzhi is a poet who has made unremitting explorations in art. Over the past 40 years, his art has gradually matured and presented his own style from his first book of poetry, No Winter, to Country Night, Morning Flowers Blooming, songji, and his recent works, China October and Bayi Song.

Among contemporary poets, He Jingzhi is best at expressing major political themes. This feature is mainly reflected in his political lyric poetry creation after the founding of the People's Republic of China. Speaking of his collection of poems, Singing aloud, Song of Lei Feng, October in China and Song of August 1 can be said to be a combination of poetry and political theory. They are a combination of description, lyricism and discussion, which clearly shows the poet's political attitude and passion, and their style is high and unrestrained.

Political lyrics express political feelings, but politics is not equal to slogans, and slogans cannot be poems. He Jingzhi's political lyrics have great artistic appeal, because he can endow abstract political propositions with concrete and vivid images, run through them with political emptiness, drive the political emptiness with the real image, and turn the political emptiness into something considerable and sensible with the real image, thus creating a poetic realm that is both touching and aesthetic.