The Definition of Political Lyrics and Vague Poetry in 1980s

The so-called "misty poetry" refers to the avant-garde poetry movement in the early contemporary period, with a generation of young people as the main body. Obscure poetry is "underground literature" bred during the Cultural Revolution, and its authors are mainly young people who grew up during the Cultural Revolution. They lived in that particularly chaotic era, and the darkness in reality gave them the motivation to write. Idealization, symbolism and three-dimensional are important features of obscure poetry. It highly advocates subjective consciousness, pursues subjective truth in the form of images, and abandons objective reproduction.

The spiritual connotation of misty poetry is mainly reflected in the following three points: 1, exposing darkness and social criticism. 2. Look for the light, reflect on the exploration consciousness and strong heroism in the dark. 3. The special concern for "people" based on humanitarianism has changed the traditional mode of describing reality and illustrating policies in previous poems, and regarded poetry as an important way to explore life, which has reached an unprecedented height in philosophical significance. In a sense, the rise of misty poetry is also the rise of China's literary life. Misty poetry is a rebellion and change to the artistic norms of traditional poetry, which provides a fresh aesthetic experience for traditional poetry creation.

Obscure poetry emphasizes defamiliarization in creation, that is, it prolongs the process of perception and highlights the aesthetic purpose. In a sense, "misty poetry" evokes the subjective awakening of aesthetic subjects. Individualized lyricism of misty poetry is not an isolated artistic phenomenon, and its ideological basis is precisely the individual freedom spirit and brand-new life consciousness shown in the criticism of "Left" politics and traditional ideology and culture. Folklore is not only a writing position, but also an aesthetic freedom. The folk nature embodied in the poet's writing means trying to get rid of the institutionalized position and pursue aesthetic freedom in thought and art, which means adhering to the individual spirit and maintaining the pure independence of individual writing.

Political lyrics

Lyrics used to celebrate major political themes. Including street poems, flyer poems, gun poems and so on. It often touches current events strongly through an episode, shows social life, digs deep into its historical content and ideological significance, and raises the issues that people are generally concerned about in life to an artistic realm full of poetry and philosophy, which is more general and concentrated than ordinary lyric poetry, with strong passion, distinctive political color, lyricism and political integration. The style is high, the momentum is bold and unrestrained, and the syllables are loud. Long sentences, scattered short sentences or stepped sentences are usually used.

Guo Xiaochuan and He Jingzhi were the most important political lyric poets in the "seventeen years" literature period.