In a word, modernist poetry has established its own poetic aesthetics at the fusion point of Chinese and foreign poetic arts, which is famous for its complex images, rich connotations and strange combinations, and is called "image lyric poetry".
Second, Dai Wangshu (1 905-1950)-an artistic attempt to create modern poetry1. Life: Dai Wangshu, formerly known as Dai Mengge, was born in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province. He is a famous modern poet and literary translator and is known as the leader of modernist poets. He has published a series of poems, such as My Memory, Wang Shucao, Wang Shucao's Poems and the Years of Disaster, with more than 90 poems, which not only reflects the historical situation in the 1920s and 40s, but also records the growth path of China modernist poetry from naivety to maturity.
2. Art exploration stage
From the stage of ideological development, Dai Wangshu's poetry is divided into two stages, from the stage of poetic art exploration into four stages, and has experienced the development process from early romanticism to becoming a representative poet of modernism.
The first stage: in the early stage of creation, a series of 12 poems in "Old Sharp in My Memory" were represented. These poems were written in 1922- 1924, which were his juvenile works.
The second stage: the transition stage to modern poetry, which not only absorbed the artistic techniques of western modernism, but also was influenced by crescent metrical poetry. It pays attention to musicality, the sentence patterns are generally neat, rhyming and fixed, and it pursues reverberating melody and smooth rhythm. The masterpiece of this period is the famous Rain Lane.
The third stage: the maturity of creation. During this period, Dai Wangshu got rid of the bondage of music, used the naturally developed modern spoken language, followed the internal rhythm required by the poet's emotional development, and turned it into a free poem characterized by prose beauty. The rhythm of emotion replaced the rhythm of words, and the poetic style turned to "Magnolia officinalis". The poem My Memory is the main harvest of this period. Wang Shucao is a collection of poems, including Dai Wangshu's most representative works. The poet found a kind of "new emotion and the form of expressing this emotion", so he became the leader of China modernist poets and an outstanding representative of the achievements of new poetry creation at that time.
The fourth stage: post-creation (creation after 1937). His early and mature works are mostly about love depression and personal depression, which is far from the times. However, after the outbreak of 1937 War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, Dai Wangshu devoted himself to the national liberation struggle, and the content and melody of his poems changed greatly. 1939 institute: the written blessing of the yuan day is a sign of this change. Since then, he has written a number of works, paying attention to the fate of the country and the nation, examining personal misfortune in the national suffering, and echoing the passion of patriotism. For example, The Wall in Prison expresses the praise for the anti-Japanese heroes, Wish expresses the expectation and confidence for the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, Accidental Success is filled with the joy of victory, and I use my injured palm to express the pain of broken mountains and rivers and the yearning for light. This poem was influenced by French surrealist poets and created a new artistic realm.
3. Rain Lane
1927, 1 1 In June, Dai Wangshu's famous work was published in Novel Monthly, which made him famous for a while. Ye Shengtao called Rain Lane "a new era of new poetry syllables", and Dai Wangshu was awarded the title of "Rain Lane Poet".
This poem was written in the summer of 1927, just after the "April 12th" coup. The poet lived in seclusion in Songjiang, a small town in Jiangsu Province, and felt "the distress of being a China person in this era". Rain Lane expresses the poet's longing for pursuit and search. The cyclical, ups and downs of the melody and the repetitive syllables in the poem set off a kind of psychological mood of hesitation and melancholy, which indirectly revealed the painful and confused atmosphere of the times and typically expressed the disappointment and hesitation of young intellectuals after the failure of the Great Revolution. The central image of the poem "a girl with a lilac knot" appeared in the dream of expectation, approached and disappeared in the "elegy of rain", leaving an unforgettable sadness in the rain.
Holding an oil-paper umbrella, I wander alone in a long, long, lonely rain lane, hoping to meet a girl as sad as lilac.
She has the same color as lilac, the same fragrance as lilac, the same sadness as lilac, the sadness in the rain, and sadness and hesitation.
She lingers in this lonely rain lane,/holding an oil-paper umbrella/like me,/like me,/silently (pool) sorrowful (Chu),/indifferent, sad and melancholy.
She approached silently and cast a sighing look. /She is adrift/in a trance,/in a trance.
Like a lilac field in a dream,/This girl walked by me,/She silently walked away, walked away,/walked towards the decadent fence,/walked into this rainy alley. Decay (π)
In the elegy of rain,/her color faded,/her fragrance dispersed,/even her sighing eyes,/lavender melancholy.
Holding an oil-paper umbrella, I am alone/wandering in a long, long, lonely rain lane/hoping to float past/a girl with lilacs/sad.
The repeated use of sentimental words in the poems highlights the poet's feelings of loneliness, sadness, sadness and melancholy, and reflects the disappointment and disillusionment of some young intellectuals after the failure of the Great Revolution.
This poem is symbolic. Everything described in the poem is floating and hazy, with long and lonely rain lanes and decaying fences. Everything is so sad and confused, symbolizing the poet's lonely and hopeless mood. He is dissatisfied with the reality, and he can't see the way out, but he is unwilling to sink, and he also flashes the shadow of ideals and hopes. This is "lilac-like". She is a poet. In the dark reality and lonely life, she symbolizes a beautiful and hazy ideal. But this lilac girl also has "lilac-like sadness, sadness and hesitation, and sighing longing", and finally floats past like a dream. Everything is so unreal, just an illusion. This poem was written by a poet. In a certain era,
The whole poem has seven sections and six lines. The length of the poem is patchy, the rhyme is regular, and it has strong musicality and melody beauty. Some people think that it has reached the peak of the rhythm beauty of modern poetry, and it is also the most popular work in Dai Wangshu's poetry. But interestingly, Dai Wangshu didn't like this poem himself, perhaps because it left traces of the metrical school, too carved and too attentively. But before long, Dai Wangshu found a new poetic element, which replaced Rain Lane. This is my memory.
4. My memory-the focus of poetics lies in "image"
Du Heng, a good friend of Dai Wangshu, said in the preface of Wang Shucao that since I can remember, Dai Wangshu can be said to have found a broad road through numerous lost paths and completed the work of "making shoes that fit him best". This broad road is also the road taken by a generation of modernist poets in the 1930s, and the focus of their poetics is "image".
My memory is more loyal to me/than my best friend. /It relies on burning cigarettes,/It relies on pens with lilies painted on them. /It lives on worn-out compact,/It lives on rotten raspberries,/It lives on half-drunk wine bottles,/It lives on worn-out old poems, on dried flowers,/It lives on gloomy lamps, on calm water,/It lives on everything with and without soul,/It lives anywhere, just like I live in this world.