Gu Cheng is an important representative poet of China misty poetry school, and is known as a contemporary "Left-leaning Romantic" poet. Gu Cheng has high attainments in new poetry, old-style poetry and fable poetry. The phrase "The night gave me black eyes/I used them to look for light" of his generation became a classic sentence in China's new poems.
1956 was born in a poet's family, and his father was a famous poet Gu Gong. Gu Cheng/Kloc-started his writing career at the age of 0/7, contributing to various newspapers and magazines. 1987 began to travel to Europe for cultural exchange. 1988 lived in seclusion in Rapids Island, New Zealand, and lived a self-sufficient life. 19931On October 8, he hanged himself under a big tree in his apartment in New Zealand because of marriage problems.
The language of Gu Cheng's early fairy tale poems is concise, with the characteristics of children's language, ethereal and pure, short sentences and beautiful artistic conception. The delicate artistic feeling mixes all sounds, sounds, lights and tastes into a wonderful world. Children can be said to be a unique image, and the image of children in Gu Cheng's poems has its own unique meaning. The creation of such poetic images should be said to be quite successful. Image-building in performing arts, as a different style in art categories, sometimes has the same effect.
Gu Cheng wrote fairy tale elements such as animals and plants in nature in his poems. Technically, personification is often used; From the perspective of writing, it is a childhood perspective; But in artistic style, simplicity comes from a childlike innocence. Gu Cheng's poems are very natural. Although his poems are far from the appearance of complicated social life, they are close to the real state of quiet and complacent cosmic life. This is precisely the truest and best state of poetry. Gu Cheng's poems are easy to read, and there are no obstacles in image, language and form.
Gu Cheng's poems are generally short in sentence structure, uncommon in language, ordinary in words and pure and simple in words. In "I am a wayward child", the poet constructed a fresh and beautiful fairy tale world, and with the poet's unique imagination, he broke the shackles of the real world and realized his spiritual freedom. In The Lonely Man in the North and The Snowhouse of Eskimos, Gu Cheng not only realized the true meaning of marriage and love in the art world, but also devoted his life to pursuing it in real life, even fighting against secularism and morality for the true love in his heart.
If you want to see Gu Cheng's last residence, you'd better go to the island on Saturday, because there will be a market on the island. It is said that Gu Cheng once sold his paintings in the market, and many old people who set up stalls in the market have seen Gu Cheng. The market will change its location according to the weather, and it is not too late to ask people the specific location when we arrive on the island.
Due to the small population on the island, the scale of the market can be said to be small, but the atmosphere is very peaceful, more like a weekly party. Just ask a few people who set up stalls, and you can get a lot of information about Gu Cheng. They will tell you how the Gu Cheng family sold paintings, spring rolls and eggs at that time, and also tell you where he set up his stall. If you want to know where the last house Gu Cheng lived in, you can also go to this market and ask. But even if you find that house, please follow the advice of "private property, please don't enter" near the house, just look at it from a distance and let the poet's deceased rest in peace.
Character evaluation Gu Cheng is an important poet of misty poetry school. When describing the development of new poetry in the history of contemporary literature, Gu Cheng is compared with Shu Ting and Bei Dao. As a poet who came into being at the historic moment, Gu Cheng was very "coincidentally" integrated into the historical process of the new poetry wave and became a member of it, or his poems had irreplaceable special poetic significance.
Gu Cheng is a poet with supreme feelings. He feels with his soul and observes with his heart. Gu Cheng belongs to the kind of poet who sings softly with his soul, and is a pure spiritual writing. His poems are quiet and soothing, gloomy and calm, and there is no lack of vitality and vitality. Gu Cheng's death has become a heart disease for literary historians. The history of literature is not a criminal trial, nor is a literary historian a moralist. We just need to know people, discuss things and explore the poet's achievements in the art of poetry.