Soaring poetry: objective existence
Regardless of the attitude towards it, fanatical poetry exists objectively. It stirs the heartstrings of readers (especially boys and girls) and impacts the poetry world. Its light dazzled many people in the poetry circle and attracted curses and admiration.
The miracle of this poem began in the spring of 1987, when Xi Murong fever swept the country. Up to now, Huacheng Publishing House, authorized by the family, has printed more than 6.5438+0.5 million copies of its three poems (Fragrance, Youth without Complaints and Nine Articles of Time). How many copies have been printed by other publishing departments? There are no statistics. At the same time, the derivative versions of these three poems-anthology and appreciation collection-were also printed in large quantities. This not only provides spiritual food for many readers, but also promotes the change of poetry style of the new generation of poetry writers.
Xi Murong's heat residual temperature is not cold. 1990 Summer, Wang Guozhen fever broke out again. His collection of poems (youth style, youth tide, youth thoughts, etc.). ) Up to now, nearly 6,543,800 copies have been published. 1June, 990, when Wang Guozhen came to Guangzhou to attend the 85th anniversary celebration of his alma mater, Jinan University, there was a burst of warm applause, and a new upsurge of poetry appeared in colleges and universities in Guangzhou. Luo Pai, a young man who graduated from a famous medical university and worked as a doctor for two years, has become a hot topic among college students. His collection of poems, Feelings of the Prodigal Son (published by Guangdong Tourism Publishing House), sold more than 2,000 copies in South China Normal University alone, and some people bought 7 copies at a time. It is said that in Jinan University, The Feeling of the Prodigal Son was released for less than three days. I didn't know that Luo Pai's classmates were as rare as aliens. "Even illiterate students spontaneously organized a seminar on Luopai poetry. It is reported that the Feeling of the Prodigal Son has become the best-selling poetry collection after Xi Murong and Wang Guozhen in the Beijing Road Sales Department of Guangzhou Xinhua Bookstore. This craze is spreading all over China. When an individual bookstore in Beijing got 6,000 copies, it said it was "not enough" ... Now, the first edition has sold out more than 30,000 copies, and the second edition is being printed. This heat is likely to cause a prairie fire.
The outbreak of three poetry booms is an unprecedented sight in the history of China literature, but it will never be a peerless phenomenon. Who is the successor? I don't know. I'm looking for it. I'm looking forward to it.
Naming of b-craze Poems
The Feelings of the Prodigal Son has not been officially published, and its clean edition has been circulated in some big schools in Guangzhou. 1991May 3 1 On the evening of Sunday, dozens of students from Sun Yat-sen University, South China Normal University, Jinan University and Sun Yat-sen Medical College gathered at Huayan Hotel to discuss Luopai. Because the author is related to Xi Re and Wang Re, and is the preface of The Feelings of the Prodigal Son, he is invited to attend. At the meeting, the students expressed their views on Luo Pai's works and raised their hands to vote. The atmosphere at the scene was very warm, which naturally associated with the works of Xi Murong and Wang Guozhen in the debate. It is believed that this kind of poetry with a large number of readers should be given a name.
Someone suggested calling it "popular poetry" or "popular poetry", but it was immediately opposed. The reason is that it will be degraded if it is associated with "popular novels", "popular songs", "popular novels" and "popular songs". Because they are, after all, the highest form of literature-poetry, many of which are more serious and high-level than the serious works of serious poets. Students gave many examples: Xi Murong's long-walled ballads, chrysanthemum on the cliff, Millennium wishes, copperplate prints, troubles … Wang Guozhen's good wishes, for friends, the withered flowers, the summer in the valley … Luo Pai's black.
Someone suggested calling it "civilian poetry", but it was quickly rejected. "Shu Ren" is the antonym of "noble". "Poetry of the common people" means that it is full of common people's consciousness, and its expression is easily accepted by the common people, but it fails to contain the characteristics of "enthusiasm".
The author puts forward the concept of "contemporary poetry", which means "contemporary trend" and "reading trend of contemporary readers", but it has not been recognized by most people.
I thought it over after the meeting. Because this kind of poetry is mainly marked by the upsurge among readers, it is simply called "upsurge poetry" It has been recognized by several friends.
This naming may be unscientific or not accepted by the public. As we haven't come up with a more suitable title, we have to use this name.
On the characteristics of classical poetry
From the works of Xi Murong, Wang Guozhen and Luo Pai, we can see some basic features of upsurge poetry.
Xi Murong is a "childlike heart" person, who mainly describes love and human feelings (including interpersonal relationships and feelings about the passage of time, etc. ) and nostalgia. These feelings belong to "me" and are in everyone's heart. They are the most precious life feelings with eternal value, so they can strike a chord with many readers. Her works are already familiar to people.
Wang Guozhen's poems win with philosophical connotation. At the beginning of May, a young tour guide in Guilin said to me, "Wang Guozhen spoke our hearts" and pointed out the direction of Wang's poems-for contemporary China teenagers. The poet wrote about the problems encountered by teenagers in life, thought and emotion. "As long as youth is still there/I won't be sad/even if the night devours everything/the sun can come back again" ("As long as tomorrow is still there"). Filled with a warm smile. Some people say that "the leisure and sadness of a scholar-bureaucrat is the main theme of all his poems". This is either ignorance or prejudice.
Luo Pai appeared in front of readers as a prodigal son. "Put on jeans and I will wander for me in the charming loess/meet the distant place" "I can't walk alone/but I can't leave footprints/but I can't walk/I can't walk with you/but I want to walk". The figure of a strong man who is determined to master his own destiny and be a life flashes in the poem, beating the exciting pulse of those who are making waves in the tide of commodity economy, thus winning the applause of young friends who are busy weaving colorful dreams for the future. Some people call it "passionate romance".
Whether it is "pure feelings", "philosophy" or "passionate romance", the works of the poets of the craze can "win people's hearts", and the colors of contemporary China are very bright.
This is the characteristic of the content of upsurge poetry. Means of expression also have their own characteristics.
Some people say that Xi Murong's poems are "not reserved for repeated study or annotation", and Wang Guozhen's and Luo's poems are also bland. The works of these three poets are simple in image, clear in structure and short and fluent in sentences. They use language as a bridge to connect their hearts with the hearts of readers, unlike some people who use language as a barrier to separate themselves from readers in order to show their "advanced". In today's increasingly tense pace of life, the popular poetic style of hot poetry is adapting to the appetite of readers and the digestion level of many contemporary China people. This is an outstanding work of fanatical poetry. For most readers, reading and appreciating poetry is just an amateur cultural activity. Where are they interested in deciphering mysterious "passwords" and guessing confusing riddles? If some people regard simplicity as low-level, then in their minds, Bai Juyi, who is probably a "master who can understand", should be expelled from the elegant hall, and the dangerous climbing master should be crowned as the "king of poetry"! I can only laugh it off.
Another feature of upsurge poetry is truth and kindness. This is one of the important factors for it to win many readers.
"When the night is like a black brocade/spread out/gently wrapped around my ear/sweetly" "It is at such a beautiful moment/longing/that you can/hold me/hug me" ("Beautiful moment-for H.P.). Bold but not vulgar, it truly shows human nature.
"You embrace the morning bell/how can you refuse the late drum" (life), "Life is not all joy/memories but an eternal song" (memories). The philosophy expounded by Wang Guozhen is not the exclusive experience of wise superman philosophy for many years. It originated from ordinary life and has long been hidden in the hearts of ordinary people.
The Luo school, which aims at the distance and strives to grow to a higher place, is lyrical but not lonely. "The moment of life is so precious/why not open it calmly" (white epiphyllum). This is a real call for tenacious progress, not great empty talk.
Real and touching; Kind and easy to get into the heart. The feelings they express are also the feelings of readers; The philosophies expounded are all philosophies that readers can experience. The upsurge of poetry closely connects poets and readers.
Poetry is the art of language. The charm of poetry can't be separated from the aesthetic feeling of art. Although the three poets have different language accomplishments, they all rejected the empty talk such as "the land should be mechanized/the grain should go up at a high speed" and the vernacular such as "tonight/no rice/no rice". "Outside the palm, the palm is not the palm; Big "black" characters such as palm shape, outer palm shape and outer palm shape, and big swearing words such as "I saw a penis when I was low/erect". They insist on writing poems.
Although Xi Murong had no intention to be a poet, he was "like a goldsmith beating day and night", refining "gold ornaments are as simple as cicadas" and "words have exquisite luster" (the value of poetry), and his beautiful artistic style was recognized by everyone. In Wang Guozhen's heated debate, there was a staunch opponent who accused Finn of "exquisitely putting feelings in the structure of sentences". Doesn't this also admit that Fen's poems have a "delicate" side? I picked a few words at random: "Sunshine is still so romantic/laughter spilled all over the floor" ("autumn scenery"), "Tide whipping/singing like a dream in the forest/fighting fiercely with the sun/dark clouds sneaking up on the moon" ("Music") ... all have exquisite beauty. Although Luo Pai first appeared in the Poetry Garden, as one commentator said, "There are many beautiful sentences, which are particularly wonderful". Let's enjoy a few words: "The ancient mountains are magnificent/the years of land reclamation/the ravines between rocks/the cliffs on both sides of the strait have plummeted for thousands of years/they can't understand each other's mysteries" (year). These sentences are very poetic.
It can be seen that it is no accident that upsurge poetry can "fire".
Although the fine works in the upsurge poems are not inferior to their sub-poems, the upsurge poems are by no means perfect works of art, and I can only make a vague judgment on their artistic taste. People have different opinions about Wang Guozhen's works. Those who hold them praise them as "the swan song of the times", while those who don't hold them think they are "influenza" and "language abuse", but they are not. His position is already in the "middle", why must he be pushed to the extreme?
The situation of fanatical poetry: between "tradition" and "pioneer"
I wrote another article about Wang Guozhen's poems, entitled "In the Valley where Tradition Confronted with Pioneers". It is mentioned in the article that Wang Guozhen has found a fertile land in this "canyon" and "grown into its own scenery". In fact, the same is true of Xi Murong and Luo Pai. So will future poets.
"Tradition" and "Pioneer" were originally opposites, but their attitude towards upsurge poetry was the same-they stood on the side of poetry and performed a mixed duet on it.
"Tradition" mainly accuses upsurge poetry of not showing the main theme of the times. This accusation is not groundless, because most of the upsurge poets wrote "I", even some trivial things. But I don't think this is out of tune with the main theme. Praising the loyalty of love, expressing nostalgia for hometown, encouraging people not to be depressed in the face of setbacks today, not to be pessimistic in their twilight years, expressing their desire to break through the iron rice bowl, etc., are not the opposite of the main theme, but a harmonious concerto. Hot poets convey warm love and encourage people to make great efforts without deviating from the spirit of the times. Of course, people want to catch bad guys when they are in love, and write "I" when I am frustrated and laugh at the world without sighing. , has a very high ideological realm, but if not, it does not mean a departure from the "double behavior." President Mao Zedong emphasized the unity of motivation and effect at the Yan 'an Forum on Literature and Art, which still has guiding significance. If the content of a work is divorced from the reality of readers' thoughts and feelings, it is difficult for people to accept it. As a result, Ren's works have a high ideological level and poor effect. Can "poetry" such as "what is not available in the world, we will create the most advanced in the world, and we will catch up" really serve the people and socialism? We should always adhere to the principle of "double action". The so-called "persistence" means earnest implementation, not just words. Please don't forget that teenagers are a part of the people and a very important part. Because we are the failure of our country and the hope of our cause. It is beneficial to the socialist cause to cultivate their temperament, purify their souls and cultivate their love for truth, goodness and beauty through poetry.
The experience of poetry craze is worth learning. Poets must think of boys and girls and strive to create their favorite poems. Walking among them, sharing joys and sorrows with them, and pulling down Yan's cold face will make you get gorgeous youth.
The "avant-garde" seems to have given up the prayer for artistic tolerance ten years ago, and their criticism of the upsurge poetry is extremely severe. The article "Wang Guozhen fever is really a misunderstanding of history" is a representative. The author of this article asserts that Wang Shi has degenerated into a handmaiden and a player; I resent Wang Guozhen's view that "my poetry is reader-oriented" and accuse Wang of "making poetry fall from the dominant position and act as a tool for enlightenment or some secular needs", which leads to "the annihilation of poetry conscience" and at least makes China's poetry go backwards for ten years-everything in this decade is finally obtained by China's modern poetry from "misty poetry" to the painful pursuit of the new generation of poets for more than ten years. "The critics are so excited that they can't live with Wang Guozhen.
This is the most vivid expression of the "pioneer" attitude of the upsurge poetry.
Poetry is an independent art form, so we must pay attention to its "noumenon". However, if poetry is rigidly divorced from society and readers, it will be "pure" and empty. The author of this article declared that "the explorers of avant-garde poetry gradually turned their eyes from the outside world to the inside, and had a deeper experience and grasp of existence." This kind of exploration should undoubtedly be respected, but may I ask; As an object of exploration, can you "survive" once you leave society? Poetry should be reader-centered, otherwise what is it for? Even if the masterpiece is "pure" to 100%, someone must appreciate it. "Poetic conscience" comes from the poet's conscience, advocating truth, goodness and beauty, and lashing the false, evil and ugly as its characteristics. Therefore, poetry should not shy away from the responsibility of enlightenment, but should dare to face the "secular". Nowadays, "secularity" has been occupied by bizarre martial arts novels and delicate pop songs. It will be a good thing if poetry can settle in and make the "vulgarity" in this world less. The noumenon emphasized by "Pioneer" actually refers to artistry, which is not necessarily compatible with "Enlightenment" and "Secularity". Hot poetry pursues the combination of the two and has achieved gratifying success. Advise this friend: don't miss the unprecedented gathering of 1986, because it is not the glory of "pioneer", but really "never recognized by serious poets" and "abusing language", as evidenced by the above-mentioned vernacular, big "black words" and big swearing. To tell the truth, without this "rally", readers would not welcome Xi Murong and Wang Guozhen so warmly, and there would be no poetry craze.
Hot poems roll and flow in the canyon where "tradition" and "pioneer" confront each other, and the heat wave beats against the canyon wall. No matter what echo the gorge wall sends out, it can't stop it from moving forward. Straight into the hearts of many readers.
Don't people want a hundred flowers to blossom? So, why not let the craze poetry occupy its own place?
The fate of online poetry
It is a natural law that there is heat and cold, and there is ebb and flow. Every upsurge of poetry is at its peak, and it is bound to fade. This is the fate of upsurge poetry.
The "Pioneer" theorist predicted that "Wang Guozhen was forgotten, just like Qiong Yao, only three or two years", and I quite agree with his estimation of time. 1932, there is no need to feel sorry for Wang Guozhen and other poets, because their poems are already hot. Zhao Yi, a poet in A Qing, said, "Jiangshan has produced talented people, each leading the way for hundreds of years". This has become history. In this ever-changing contemporary era, it is a great talent to be able to lead coquettish for 32 years. In a reply to a friend, Luo Pai said, "Because flowers will wither, they are more beautiful than flowers made of gold." This sentence deserves our appreciation.
Wang Guozhen's Forgotten is a great fortune in the poetry circle. The old craze receded, the new craze came in, and the poetry world was full of vitality. If a trend of poetry always depends on nothing, it is not a trend, but a stagnant pool. In this way, readers will get bored and poetry, a literary form, will face bad luck.
However, Wang Guozhen may not really be "forgotten", because the unprecedented poetic phenomenon of upsurge poetry will be recorded in the history of poetry, and no one can deny its existence and influence.
At this point, I intend to change the last sentence of the article "In the Valley of Confrontation between Tradition and Pioneer" to the end of this article:
The upsurge poets found their place in the valley where "tradition" and "pioneer" confronted each other, and seized the opportunity to grow into their own scenery. This "landscape" does not pose any threat to the survival of others, but it does cause pressure. This is not a bad thing. Pressure will force "others" to think about themselves and improve themselves. Isn't this also conducive to the development and prosperity of poetry?
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