What is modern poetry? What is modern poetry?
Although I can't give a very strict answer, I think we should at least have a clear boundary with other styles (such as prose, novel, drama, etc.). ), otherwise it will lead to the quagmire of "agnosticism". Moreover, if it is not obviously different from prose, is it necessary to exist? When we want to write those so-called modern poems in the future, we can write prose!
Isn't it? Look at the avant-garde modern poetry in contemporary poetry! Look at those words that are as straightforward as boiling water, as vulgar as shouting, and as incomprehensible as talking in a dream. Is that a poem? Is this the spirit of language?
Also, contemporary poetry lacks masters. There are not only classical poets like Qu Yuan, Li Bai and Du Fu, but also modern master poets like Guo Moruo, Xu Zhimo and Ai Qing.
"If you take a long breath to hide your tears, you will mourn the hardships of people's lives." In the countercurrent of the years, Qu Yuan, the first poet through the ages, shocked our hearts with sad songs. Du Fu is a great realistic poet deeply loved by the people. He witnessed and wrote all the sufferings of the people all his life. Even when his cabin was destroyed by the autumn wind, he even wrote the love feelings of "there are thousands of spacious houses, and the poor in the world are happy".
Also, today, when we look back and savor the classic poems that left a deep impression on our memory, such as The Good Earth, My Mother, Phoenix Nirvana, Wild Goose River-My Nanny, Dawn Notice and Farewell to Cambridge, why do our hearts tremble? Why do we feel the impact of sublime, broad or elegant beauty? What will we find? Can our contemporary poets do this?
Why? Because the sages once said, "sublimity is the echo from the great mind." Our poets lack a great mind, a broad mind of compassion, a spirit of embracing the sun, the moon and the universe, and a unique personality charm ..... They only rely on kitsch language, lacking character poetry and skill of poetic expression. Is this the sadness of contemporary poetry? !
At present, many critics are quite critical of modern poetry. One of the most representative remarks is that modern poetry has lost its readers and market. They say that more people write poems than read them. Why?
In my opinion, as far as the content of modern poetry is concerned, firstly, the ideological content is not high, and poets often vent their feelings at will, express their small emotions from time to time, or just tease a serious theme; Or the so-called grandstanding, unconventional. Second, most poets lack a sense of mission and responsibility. In the impetuous and noisy contemporary era, in this era of belief crisis and mainstream spiritual collapse, seeking dreams is a theme of young people's spiritual life. And those contemporary modern poems that lack a sense of mission and responsibility make the dreamer who trudges more confused and make the young people who place their hopes on modern poems more confused and lost! This may be the main reason why modern poetry has lost readers. Thirdly, modern poetry lacks the inheritance and development of China's excellent classical poetry, just like a child with congenital deficiency, or duckweed and wall reed without foundation, lacking solid foundation and profound inside information. Isn't it? Those avant-garde poets who keep saying that God is dead simply disdain to learn the excellent classical poetry art of our motherland. They dream of building castles in the air of modern poetry. This may be the biggest defect of modern poetry in art and aesthetics! In view of this, it is no wonder that Mr. Lu Xun once said: Good poetry will be finished in the Tang Dynasty! The poet Mao Zedong also said, "Give me 200 silver dollars, and I won't read new poems!"
Perhaps this is because contemporary poetry has lost its way and the poetry world is in chaos. Ugly, humble, wordy, incomprehensible, obscure and other words have been branded with poetry, and anyone can become a poet, so it is an indisputable fact that there are more people writing poems than reading them! What a pity!
Who will save modern poetry? Where is the way out for modern poetry? Muse, please don't cry! So, I wrote this so-called modern poem in infinite disappointment and resentment:
Muse, please don't cry.
When all the text lines are arranged
Be advertised as poetry.
When all the people who can write
Call yourself a poet.
When the temple of poetry-
Full of garbage and sewage.
and
Mosquitoes and flies are humming hymns.
Muse, please don't cry.
When Iraqis at the water's edge
No longer make poetry melancholy, lovesickness and confusion.
The grass grows in the long pavilion. Farewell.
No longer let the poem hurt, tremble and break your heart.
When the lines become so straightforward
A cup of boiled water overnight.
Muse, please don't cry.
Lilac girl walks out of lonely rain lane
Many years later, it became—
My Sassy Girl
Stroll into a line of poetry
When we bid farewell to Cambridge,
There is no need to bid farewell to the clouds in the western world affectionately.
Just-
Scold a word or two loudly and casually.
Muse, please don't cry.
When ugly, decadent and pale words
Control your temple
Graffiti at will—
Vulgar and morbid feelings and life
Muse, please don't cry.
Muse, please don't cry.
The poet said, for this desperate backwater
Just throw out your leftovers.
Please feel free to return your garbage.
Look what world it has become.
For the irreparable poetry circle
Muse, please don't cry.
Muse, please don't cry.
The poet also said-
Phoenix can be reborn after nirvana.
Yes, it can be regenerated. ...
Although I am confused and disappointed with modern poetry, I have my own views. My philosophy of poetry creation is:
Pursuing some kind of innovation and some kind of thought in the elegant and aesthetic artistic conception; I like imaginative, poetic and mellow poetic sentences; I like the depth and thought-provoking realm of poetry, but I don't want to be bound by some forms of poetry. That is to say, to express and write scenery, feelings and thoughts with poetic images full of freedom and thoughts to the maximum extent, to pursue pure aesthetic taste, and to achieve an absolute freedom and detachment of mind and spirit!
Let us eagerly look forward to the rebirth of modern poetry! Because the poet said-phoenix nirvana can be reborn. ......