Li's representative poems

As a magazine host, poetry anthology and critic, Li gives the impression of being active, pioneering, distinctive and unique in style. The magazine edited by him has been deeply involved in the debate of contemporary China's ideological and cultural concepts, showing the spiritual outlook of today's society in drastic changes. His poetry anthology and comments are also actively involved in the chaotic and dynamic reality of today's poetry, trying to influence, promote and shape the understanding of today's poetry forms. He declared that China was a poetic culture in ancient times and highly praised the core position of poetry in traditional culture. He declared that now is the best time for the development of new poetry and praised the achievements of modern new poetry. He also put forward the widely criticized concepts of "grass-roots writing" and "new beauty writing" with fearless spirit. His name does not seem to come from thoughtful theoretical thinking, but from the sensitivity and keenness of intuition, as well as the courage and courage of inner enthusiasm. And thought, in terms of its fundamental idea of awakening people's hearts, is not just a sensitive intuition about the spirit of the times? Just like some animals, out of instinctive sensitivity, smell the subtle changes in the air before the storm comes and give a warning sound in advance? The poet's nature is to judge by intuition and enthusiasm, not to think by gathering and inferring knowledge. The poet's theory has its own irrationality or non-historical facts, but it also has amazing accurate insight. Therefore, Li is not so much a critic as a poet in essence. Therefore, his thoughts are always eye-catching and controversial because of their fierceness, distinctiveness and loopholes. Unlike many critics, he wrote many balanced articles without leaving any impression. So, as a poet, what is Li's poem?

Li's poems have distinctive features, so it is easy to see their style and orientation. Contrary to the style of his ideological criticism, his poems are very quiet and simple in theme, and almost all of them are written with the beauty of nature or the subtlety of inner love, with harmonious tone and slow breathing. The overall style of his poems can be described as gentle, honest, quiet and leisurely. In terms of specific writing, his poems are clean in language and concise in length; There is no detailed description and elaboration, but the basic feeling of the integration of subject and object is described with concise pen and ink, leaving a lot of blank space and a space with reverberating meaning and long aftertaste; This is an ethereal poem. Generally speaking, his poetry is a kind of mature and steady poetry with unique style. It has its own ethical basis, aesthetic pursuit and its own subordinate traditional pedigree. This is a highly conscious and elegant style rooted in culture and upbringing; He is a comprehensive and mature poet. He is a highly conscious choice after his understanding, experience, cultivation and other aspects are mature. Although this style has its own independent overall appearance, it is easy for people to recognize, but it is not particularly eye-catching. It is not intense, dazzling, abrupt, noisy or extreme. It is gentle, quiet and conservative, and it is a simple poem.

In fact, this simple poem, under its deceptive simplicity, implies various complicated motives and intentions. At present, the most popular and noisy poetry tide is the kind of anger poems that call for liberation and progress (pioneers), pursue popularization, localization, anti-culture, extensive language (including swearing) and strong sense of reality. One is the kind of poetry that is accompanied by modern poetic concepts (all from the West) and is full of intelligent irony, complex metaphors, intertextual mapping and language games. Li chose to write a very elegant and leisurely poem with landscape agriculture and strong traditional literati color. Obviously, it is different from the atmosphere of the times, a little stubborn, a little dangerous and a little opinionated. In fact, this choice is also a key and challenging statement. Therefore, in Li's simple poetic style, his poems are as radical as his comments, but they are special and can be called "conservative radicalism". As he himself said: "Innovation sometimes begins with' retro'" (poetry in the grassroots era). Of course, in the history of modern poetry, retro is a route that has always been accompanied. For example, T·S· Eliot, regarded as the representative of modern British and American poetry, declared: "Politically, I am a royalist; Religiously, I am English; In literature, I am a classicist. Pasternak also repeatedly emphasized his "classicism" attitude in his later years. But also, under the simple "retro" banner, there are still many complicated problems hidden. Under Li's "retro" poetic style, why is it still retro? What is "ancient"? How to "restore" the past? Wait a minute. problem I want to analyze the retro tendency in Li's poems by combining his specific poetry texts, which is of course very interesting and enlightening.

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In contemporary poetry, it can be said that there has always been an unobtrusive "retro route". In their speeches, many poets revealed the news of their admiration, yearning and return to China's ancient poetry tradition (or cultural tradition). I only cite two people: Xiaohe. Yu Kai Jr. said in "North and South of the Great River" published in 2002: "New poetry is stagnant and it is impossible to understand the past." The writing proposition of new poetry: "first, contemporary poetry;" Second, bronze drums. " The reason is: "In the past hundred years, it has become more and more natural for poets to learn other people's languages. "The purpose is: to learn from the past can be" present in history, I am in the group ",can" see the spirit of the article again "and can" learn from others ". His writing style is very archaic, and his meaning is simple: New Poetry began to learn foreign poetry (in fact, western poetry in Europe and America), and has been learning foreign poetry, without inheriting the tradition of China's classical poetry, resulting in low achievement. Only by continuing the classical (poetic) tradition can we position ourselves for today (poetry), for the world (poetry) and for me (poetry), and we can restore the spirit of China's poetry in the crowd and conduct two-way mutually beneficial exchanges with foreign poetry. Bai Hua should continue the tradition of "enjoyment" in China's ancient poems, an ideal world with mountains and rivers, a gentle and considerate life of literati with talented people and beautiful women, and a beautiful garden and forest scenery created and controlled artificially. He emphasized that this is a kind of personal pleasure aesthetics that is opposite to "revolutionary aesthetics" and a struggle aesthetics that depicts cruel social reality. It is a more authentic personal feeling and an aesthetic of personal life in the great era. Bai Hua's tradition can be described as the "dream literature" tradition of literati and talented people, a kind of personal self-satisfaction and hedonism. In Xiao's writing (from Ode to Du Fu to A Broken Field), a kind of Confucian spirit is embodied: commitment to traditional cultural spirit (eliminating foreign thoughts) and concern for national political ethics, group and individual destiny. We can see that both of them are looking back and paying tribute to the tradition, but they are completely different from the reality they are aiming at. So, what kind of tradition is Li? Let's see his jade before dawn.