biographical notes
Yu Guangzhong (1928-), a Taiwan Province poet, was born in Shangyang Village, taocheng town, Yongchun County, Fujian Province (his mother was from Jiangsu Province), and his ancestral home was Nanjing. He studied at Moling Road Primary School (formerly Cuibaxiang Primary School) and Nanjing No.5 Middle School (formerly Nanjing YMCA Middle School), and 1947 entered the Foreign Languages Department of Jinling University (later transferred to Xiamen University). 1953 founded "Blue Star" Poetry Society with Qin Zihao and Zhong Dingwen. Later, he went to the United States for further study and obtained a master's degree in art from the University of Iowa. After returning to Taiwan Province, he became a professor at National Normal University, National Chengda University, National Taiwan Province University and Chinese University of Hong Kong. He is currently the Dean of Art College of Sun Yat-sen University in Taiwan, a famous contemporary poet and critic. Yu Guangzhong is a complicated and changeable poet, and the changing track of his writing style can basically be said to be a trend of the whole poetry circle in China for more than 30 years, that is, westernization first and then regression. In the early poetry debates in Taiwan Province and the rural literature debates in the mid-1970s, Yu Guangzhong's poetry theory and creation showed a strong tendency of advocating westernization, ignoring readers and being divorced from reality. As he himself said, "When I was a teenager, my pen was touched by the aftermath of Heaton Ling Ke, or the river of the Thames. The brewing industry is nothing more than 1842 wine. " After the 1980s, he began to realize the importance of his country to his creation. He extended his poetic pen back to that continent and wrote many homesick poems. His attitude towards local literature changed from opposition to kindness, showing an obvious trajectory of returning from west to east, so he was called a "prodigal son" by Taiwan Province provincial poetry circles. Yu Guangzhong's literary language is complex and changeable, and he strives to forge an Dan in the "China writing furnace". There is such a passage in the postscript of his prose collection "Happy Travel", which we can have a glimpse of. "In" Happy Travel ","Ghost Rain "and other works, I really want to make a writing furnace that is Dan Yu China. In this kind of works, I try to compress, flatten, lengthen, sharpen China's words, tear them apart, fold them and then fold them, so as to test their speed, density and elasticity. My ideal is to symphonize China's words into big bands with different syntax, and the writer's pen should be like a baton of a symphony. Just look at how the prose of writers such as Lin Yutang is still in monotonous and rigid syntax. Modern essayists in China should suddenly realize that prose should have been revolutionized long ago. " From the perspective of poetic art, Yu Guangzhong is an "artistic polygamist". His works are extremely inconsistent in style. Generally speaking, his poetic style varies from subject to subject. Poems expressing will and ideals are generally magnificent and powerful, while works describing homesickness and love are generally delicate and soft. There are more than ten books such as Elegy of Zhou Zi, Blue Ling, Stalactites, Halloween, White Jade and Bitter Melon.