I remember that the news of Mr. Wang's death last year was broadcast in the People column of CCTV's "News Weekly". At that time, our class would watch this program every weekend night.
At that time, it was because I was watching a show. The students are quite free. They talk, some play with their mobile phones, and some eat snacks. Some people even asked: "Who is this old man?" I really wanted to turn off the computer at that time and tell them loudly that this is the excellent poet who wrote "Love Life" and encouraged you to "since you have chosen the distance, just care about the wind and rain." ah!
Faced with the passing of such a poet, this generation of young people does not have much emotion and sadness! They have used Mr. Wang's famous lines countless times in their compositions, but they don't even know who such a person is. This is disrespectful to Mr. Wang and a major failure of his innocence and youth.
When I searched for Wang Guozhen in the search bar recently, I entered the word "王", and then the names of people who were searched more frequently appeared below. The first one is Wang Feng, and the last one is Wang Sulong. Half of the ten alternatives are from the acting industry, and one of the wives is an actress. Mr. Wang is not among the candidates. Does this mean that people already know and are familiar with such a famous person? I think not!
I started reading Wang Guozhen in high school. At that time, he was still an authentic and complete literary young man. Before that, Xu Zhimo was known to everyone. Now think about it, if it weren't for Xu Zhimo's legendary love and life, not many people would remember him deeply! Here, I do not mean to deny the literary value of his "Farewell to Cambridge" and his literary attainments. However, when I later bought a collection of his poems, it didn’t give me much surprise.
I have bought some poetry collections, but only Wang Guozhen and Xi Murong can really read them one by one and make me recite them over and over again. This does not mean that I deny the value of other poets' works. Besides, there are so many poets in the world that I have not been able to read them all. It’s just that poetry is indispensable to my youth, as well as those two poets who wrote about youth tenderly.
The era of writing and reciting poems seems to be far away. In this 21st century, poetry cannot create GDP but is regarded as nonsense. The poetry seems to have gone far away, and the youth of that year has nothing to do with romance and innocence. What surrounds us are bloody love stories, decadent, negative, depressed and bitter youth life.
Recently, I have seen many articles about Lin Huiyin. The love of this strange woman in the Republic of China has been written over and over again. The writer is not tired, and the readers are not tired either. Her beauty, her family background, and the love of those three outstanding men, this is really a realistic legend that is no less than an idol drama. Her talents and knowledge seem to have been reduced to a foil, and the love story of the talented man and the beautiful woman is the focus of more people's attention. It's just that she was once a woman who wrote poetry, in an era when new poetry was popular. Writing and reciting poems became a fashion. Talented men and beauties of that era also used poetry to express their lingering feelings!
Before and after the reform and opening up, there was a revival of poetry! At that time, Beidao, Shuting and Haizi were well known to everyone.
Nowadays, Lin Xi writes lyrics like poetry, and Li Jian is willing to be a poet in songs. There are many wandering singers in Lijiang who play guitars and sing folk songs. Poems seem to have been completely transformed into songs, and we have even become accustomed to them without realizing it.
I used to write poetry, but then I read poetry. I wonder what will happen in the future?
This seems to be an era when writing poetry will be scolded. More and more people have this argument - "Don't think that if you can hit the space bar and line feed key, what you write will be poetry..." So, in In this era of abnormal material prosperity and crazy technological advancement, people are squeezed to fight for a life-saving air for their own survival, leaving only frowns and miserable faces busy running for a living. Therefore, poetry was forgotten. There are fewer and fewer people writing poetry, and fewer and fewer people reading poetry.
Years later, apart from memorizing some Tang poems and Song lyrics to fill in the blanks for exams, or as materials to add literary flair to compositions, do we have any other reasons and patience to read a poem?
Some people say: In love, everyone is a poet. Adolescents pursue romance, have passionate love and passionate fantasies. Xu Zhimo wrote "Farewell Cambridge" in his youth, Dai Wangshu confessed his love to the melancholy lilac girl in "Rain Lane", and Yeats affectionately recited a motto of love in "When You Are Old"...
So what about now? The age of falling in love is getting earlier and earlier, and poetry and distance have become the ideals advertised by most people. However, the synonym of youth has become Guo Jingming, League of Legends, and the bloody and vulgar youth movie.
I can’t help but wonder, since “life consists of poetry and distance in addition to the present,” then do you keep your heart on the road? The soul, body and mind can never be deserted, so do you love life? After choosing the far away place, do you really only care about the wind and rain? Do you bravely reveal your sincerity to the rose you love?
People in youth are passionate and fickle, while people in youth are pure and kind. That is the best age to give birth to a poet, but the reality seems that it is no longer so easy to produce poets.
When Yu Xiuhua’s deeds were widely disseminated, and when Yu Xiuhua’s poetry collection was sold well, we seemed to be able to see a short-term revival of poetry.
While we are moved by the fact that a cerebral palsy patient can comfort his bitter life with poetry, more ordinary and healthy people like us are still ashamed of our inaction and numb complaints.
Poetry is not necessarily a kind of life, but it must be a kind of feeling. Just like, there are Wang Guozhen and Xi Murong who will never be forgotten in my youth.
Mr. Wang once said that he was willing to go deep into life, but in fact he did not go deep into life. In real life, you have to pay a staggering price if you want to achieve every aspect of being free and unrestrained, sincere, tolerant, and patient. Therefore, in the process of practice, you may have to change your original intention and laugh miserably at what you originally held. Regardless, he may no longer have the energy to appreciate his own chicness. Now that he has passed away, he still insisted on working hard in literary and artistic work until the end of his life. His persistence and strength made me feel that he had not changed his original intention. He paid an astonishing price and finally lived a proud life.
He wrote in "The Ball": "Perhaps for forgetting, perhaps for searching, perhaps for nothing." Life is not the same, on the road of forgetting and searching, we will eventually go to die.
In "March", "I have a dream of dandelions, hidden deep behind time;" in "Hometown", "Walking on the bluestone road, holding a handful of small ocher-red flowers. Umbrella;" In "Alone", "I am willing to be like tea, keeping the bitterness in my heart and exuding fragrance."
Mr. Wang once said with his sincere heart and sincere feelings. It warmed the youth of countless people. My youth can be found in Mr. Wang's poems. He describes it in poetic language. I sincerely thank this poet who writes poems with sincerity.
Finally, I would like to send you one of my favorite poems by Mr. Wang and those poems that I think are extremely beautiful.