The Artistic Features of Old Horse
1, short and pithy, concise and profound
The poem "Old Horse" has only eight sentences, with the horse's head drooping and the body leaning back, which clearly shows a kind of outlook on life. It embodies the artistic realm of "deep to home, deep to simplicity".
2. Thoughtful and unpretentious.
The poet thinks that "it is difficult for everyone to understand a poem, so it is good to understand it." It is easy to carve a poem so that you can understand it. " Therefore, his poems are unpretentious, but serious and rigorous, pursuing artistic tempering and forming his own dignified poetic style. Therefore, it is called "Kuyin School" in new poetry. He said: "I strive to be meticulous and painstaking in my pursuit, hoping to put every word in the most suitable place and screw it tightly like a screw." (Postscript to Selected Poems of Cang Kejia)
Ma Lao's poems are extremely simple, full of simple quality and aesthetic feeling, and have formed their own style and characteristics. Like the poem "always", "anyway", "the pressure on the back is buckled into the meat" and "the tears are only swallowed in the heart", it is almost like a farmer pouring out his personal feelings, and he can't tell whether it is the language of the farmer or the language of the poet.
Every word of the old horse's poems has been carefully selected and refined, thus reaching the level of perfection. This is inseparable from his serious creative attitude. The poem "Old Horse" is an image tortured by life, giving people a feeling of withering and emaciation. Another example is the "buckle" in "The Pressure on the Back Buckles into the Meat", which is vivid and vivid. It not only reminds people of the heavy pressure on horseback, but also shows the strength of the heavy pressure and the progress of the gentle pressure. If you change the word, it won't be so natural, appropriate and subtle.
3. Pay attention to rhythm and rhythm.
Cang Kejia opposed the pursuit of formal neatness in poetry creation and the complete prose culture. His poems pay attention to the sense of rhythm on the basis of nature, and regard the rhyme as "a strong symbol of emotional position and rhythm return" His poems reflect the trend of metrical poems towards nature. The poem "Old Horse" embodies this point well. "Old Horse" has four sentences in each paragraph, with one or three rhymes and two or four rhymes. It is extremely neat, catchy and full of rhythm. However, the number of words in each line of the poem is not the same, and there is no "word ruler" like Wen Yiduo's poem. The structure and number of words of the poem are constantly adjusted according to the change of feelings, which breaks through the sense of form in Wen Yiduo's poems and makes the metrical poems go natural.
In today's China, there is no consensus on the artistic features and trends of poetry. Many people even think that poetry has reached a desperate situation. Cang Kejia's poetry creation and theoretical proposition should give us some enlightenment. The core of his poetics is to complete the historical mission entrusted by the times and the poet's sense of responsibility for the times. He believes that the key for a poet to complete the historical mission entrusted by the times is to have a noble and perfect personality. In addition, he should get in touch with reality, go deep into life, devote himself to the torrent of the times and grasp the pulse of the times. Only a full life can create poems that reflect the times. Otherwise, hiding in the ivory tower and chanting personal joys and sorrows, his poems will inevitably be empty. In this way, the poet is far away from the times, and the times will inevitably abandon the poet. Cang Kejia's judgment on poetry creation is worth pondering by every poet today.