The poem "Avoid" is written by Gu Cheng.
Original text: You don’t want to plant flowers
You said:
“I don’t want to see it
withering a little bit”
Yes
To avoid the end
You avoid the beginning
Introduction to the poet
Gu Cheng (1956-1993) , male, originally from Shanghai, was born in a poet's family in Beijing on September 24, 1956. He is an important representative of the Chinese Misty Poetry School and is known as a contemporary "spiritual romantic" poet. In 1969, he was transferred to Dongzhong Commune, Changyi County, Shandong Province with his father for five years. After returning to Beijing, he worked as a fondant worker and porter. In 1987, he was invited to visit European and American countries for cultural exchanges and lectures. In 1988, he went to New Zealand and was hired as a researcher in the Department of Asian Languages ??at the University of Auckland. He later resigned and lived in seclusion on Waiheke Island. In 1992, he revisited Europe and the United States. In October 1993, he killed his wife and then committed suicide. He left behind a large number of poems, calligraphy and paintings, and published "Complete Collection of Gucheng Poems", the novel "Ying'er", and many collections of essays.
Representative works
"A Generation", "Daytime Moon", "Dark Eyes", "I am a Wayward Child", the novel "Ying'er", etc., among which The one we are most familiar with is "Generation". The original text is: The night gave me black eyes, but I used them to look for light. ?
Literary achievements
Gu Cheng is a representative figure of the Misty Poetry School in the new era of our country. He is known as the "fairy tale poet" who sees the world with a childlike heart. The misty poetry that emerged from the late 1970s to the early 1980s was an important part of the exciting ideological and literary "liberation" trend at that time. It was also the starting point of the new poetry movement in the 1980s.
In 1975, he completed his masterpiece "Fantasia of Life" with the talent of a child prodigy and established his own creative style. "Ode to the World", created in 1984, has a reflective undertone and a calm style. Gu Cheng's poems such as "A Generation" and "Arc" have become the "Misty Poems" repeatedly mentioned in the debate on Misty Poems.
From 1987 to 1993, he wrote the only autobiographical novel "Ying'er". His poems often use jumping short sentences, blurred colors, and murmuring monologues to create a fairy tale world far away from the world.
In the early 1980s, Gu Cheng’s self shifted from attachment to nature to attachment to culture. He has written works with strong speculative colors and social awareness, such as "I am a Wayward Child", "A Generation", and "The Tomb of the Red Guards". Gu Cheng wrote many poems dedicated to Xie Ye. These poems contain fantasies that transcend reality, striving to pursue an external, simple and isolated world.