Variation and Defamiliarization of Poetry Expression

How to deal with the defamiliarization of poetry and prose language

Caigan Yin, a Sichuan writer, poet and critic, summed up the methods of defamiliarization of poetic language, such as "abnormal collocation of words", "coexistence of different kinds of words" and "semantic (or contextual) confrontation", and wrote them into the lecture notes of "Introduction to Poetry Creation" as innovative methods of poetry. As an innovative method of lyrics, it was written into the textbook "Introduction to Lyrics Creation", and as an innovative method of writing, it was incorporated into the courses "Poetry Writing Course", "Creative Writing Course" and middle school teaching courseware. Readers have forwarded them one after another, setting off a wave of "exploring the strangeness of poetry (lyrics) language".

-Excerpted from Caigan Yin's exploration of defamiliarization of poetic language.