I spent four consecutive days reading Angel’s poems. I was deeply moved by the persistent pursuit of poetry by this poet who self-exiled in Beijing. She is indeed one of the rare poets who lives and dies with poetry. In order to develop her poetic career, she moved to the north, resolutely leaving her warm hometown in the south and her comfortable job.
It is generally recognized that Angel is one of the outstanding poets of her generation (or the middle generation). She published poems that many readers loved. The artistic characteristics of Angel's poetry have left a deep impression on me in at least five aspects:
1. Angel's confessional lyricism is a kind of lyricism that opens up to readers, sincere, sincere and without any pretense. Decoration, no pretense of sentimentality or diseaseless sex or insincerity. She shows herself to readers, analyzes herself, and reveals her own mental journey. In terms of revealing her emotional life experience, she is so candid that she can almost rival American confessional poets. Her confession even broke through the Chinese tradition of "a son hides from his father, and a minister hides from the emperor" that the Chinese people follow consciously or unconsciously, and "shame for the emperor, his mistakes for the wise, and his illness for his relatives". For example, she loves her father. , but while mourning the death of his father, he did not hide his shortcomings during his lifetime.
Although the poet complained about many shortcomings of her father during his lifetime, her direct expression of her feelings was full of love and deep longing for her father. Her style was very different from the American confessional poet Plath's "Daddy" (1966) ). When Plath's father died, she regarded him as God, but later she thought he was a Nazi (actually he was not) and her mother was more likely to be Jewish, which gave her a mixed love-hate relationship with her father. Plath did not conceal her feelings, but she expressed them very exaggeratedly. For example, the last stanza of the poem: There is dirt in your fat black heart/The villagers never liked you/They danced and stampeded on you /They always know it’s you under their feet/Daddy, daddy, you ***, I’m done.
This just proves the differences between Chinese and American cultures, but in terms of revealing the inner world, Angel seems to be similar to Plath to a certain extent. However, Angel's way of mourning her deceased father goes beyond the ethics followed by most Chinese people. Therefore, this kind of mourning poem can be said to be Angel's first in China.
2. Angel’s deep melancholy caused by loneliness is the most affecting reader, but her unique humor will also make readers smile knowingly. For example, she said in "The Confucian Temple Worships the Teachers" (2014): "Teachers before me/I am from Fujian, now living in Beijing/I have been writing poetry for nearly 20 years, and so far I have run out of ideas/I beg you to ask me about my dreams at midnight/Give me a wonderful pen One..."
Another example is that the poet wanted to find his ideal (go to Beijing to find opportunities to realize his ideal), but his deaf grandma misunderstood and misunderstood "ideal" as "leaving home". The poet He used this to poke fun at his own departure from home: "I turned a corner and ran into my grandma, and I said, give me an ideal, I want to go deep/" What? Grandma asked, "Leaving home?" /Do you want to leave home? You don’t want your father or your mother/You ran alone to that capital where Chairman Mao stayed/You want to leave your hometown, where are you going? " ("Turning a Corner and Going Deeper into the Ideal", 2006).
3. The flowing lines of Angel's continuous sentences are arranged ingeniously and flexibly, and can easily draw the reader's attention from the previous line to the next line.
The next line, which makes the poem lines vary in length and variety, breaks the usual thinking pattern and avoids monotony, for example: "The red silk spread by the morning glow adds magnificence to my mountains and rivers, I love it/ This cockcrow morning has a long-lasting atmosphere! / I keep encountering simple greetings while walking in the sunset because I am not / one of the countless people. The thousands of torrents hidden in my chest are arranging a wonderful tenderness for me /. It is entangled and pounding. " ("I Lived in a Southern Song Village Many Years Later", 2009).
4. An Qi has a profound accumulation of literary culture and profound life experience. Sparkling fresh verses appear almost everywhere in her poems: "Step back, the past/the messy future is crowded into the uncomfortable present"; "Toothache is hidden in the teeth" (expressing the mixture of love and hate to the point of grinding one's teeth); "I don't know why the sky is cloudy and sunny at times, my lover's face/ "Why don't they bloom?"; "A day you don't want is lived every day, and a day you want/is hopeless every day"; "The leaves fall not because of the violent wind but because the tree doesn't hold back"... The poet picked them easily Come, they sparkle when inlaid in the right places, and their implicit insights and warnings make readers endlessly memorable.
5. The poet is good at using synaesthesia to make the emotions she wants to express concrete. Lively and interesting, for example: "The wind is cold, and the three-foot-thick wind is resting on the back of Beidaihe"; "Monotonous and withered. Every day I try/25 kilograms of loneliness and powerlessness to make myself walk quickly on the bus line. "An Qi can pick them up casually. Some poets also deliberately use synesthesia, but it often seems stiff and inappropriate, but Angel is good at naturally creating clever sentences that confuse vision, hearing and touch in a specific context. Come.
An Qi is a poet who loves poetry so much that she loves poetry. Her innate talent and insight combined with her unremitting efforts have made her achieve such gratifying achievements. She will open up a lot of new land in the field of poetry in the future.