2007165438+1October 19 Shenzhen Business Daily
1 17 10 17, a reading club of China Renmin university and two folk poetry organizations held a poetry reading club on the campus of the National People's Congress to commemorate the 14 anniversary of Gu Cheng's death. On this day, similar commemorative activities were held in Shenyang, Urumqi, Wuhan, Hangzhou, Xi, Nanning and Wuxi. Just like the poetry recital of Renda University, the organizers of commemorative activities in various places are local literary clubs, poetry clubs or bookstores. As a special figure in the history of modern poetry in China, Gu Cheng proved his influence among people, poets and poetry lovers in this way.
1993 10.08 On an island in northern New Zealand, Gu Cheng, a representative poet of the "Misty Poetry School", hanged himself under a big tree after killing his wife, leaving behind famous poems such as One Generation, Far and Near, Life-long Fantasy and an autobiographical novel "Welcome Children". Gu Cheng's suicide and the publication of Ying Er aroused strong social repercussions at that time. The debate about whether Gu Cheng is a "gifted poet" or a "murderer" still shows signs of going to two extremes. Since 14, how to define and evaluate Gu Cheng has been inconclusive. He still hangs in the declining and gloomy poetic sky like a bloody exclamation point.
Even among poets, their views on Gu Cheng are completely different. At the National People's Congress Commemorative Reading Conference on June 5438+07, the poet Zhang Hou made a banner of "Commemorating the Poet Xie Ye" and insisted that the host hang this banner with the poster of Gu Cheng. This accident caused applause and welcome from many students present. The banner was never hung, but the words "in memory of the poet Xie Ye" written by Zhang Hou on the blackboard were gently erased by a girl in a white dress. As always, this "willful child" is still loved by people willfully, but Xie Ye, who has been forgotten as a poet, failed to become her anniversary, and her death is still just a sentence that can be erased at will in the history of modern poetry.
In fact, the commemoration of Gu Cheng and Xie Ye can be divided into the commemoration of "poetry" and "people". Gu Cheng, as a symbol of poetry, is bigger than Xie Ye's symbol of "man", which was true in the 1990s when poetry was still at the end of the golden age, and also in the network era when spoof was rampant and everyone could write poetry. Commemorating Gu Cheng is because of his pure, naive, harmonious and pure dream world, which is the ideal of many people's poetry and people's recognition and nostalgia for the traditional aesthetics of poetry. The spontaneous organization of commemorative activities by the people is helpful to promote the return of poetry to the essential beauty of poetry. When the poetry world is becoming impetuous, poets are eager for quick success and instant benefit, and speculation is prevalent, the significance of revisiting Gu Cheng lies in finding the text of poetry rather than shaping and beautifying an idol.
In the discussion of the relationship between poetry and people, the mainstream view has always been that a person should be a good person first, and then a good poem. The premise of pursuing good poetry is not to lose personality and dignity. From this perspective, both Gu Cheng and Xie Ye need to be commemorated. They are all poets. They left this world on the same day. They used their own tragedies to warn poets how to distinguish the truth of secular life from the illusion of poetic world. Then, when we present a wreath to Gu Cheng, why not light a candle for Xie Ye?
The indifference of society and the marginalization of literature make poets the most vulnerable group to spiritual difficulties. Not long ago, Hubei poets committed suicide at home, which once again confirmed the fragility of their inner world. What to realize the value of self and society, maintain the purity of the spiritual kingdom, and awaken people's attention to poetry … these are just selfish excuses. At present, the responsibility given to poets by society is negligible, but we have to remind them again and again that being responsible for ourselves is also a sacred task.
Never before have people found poetry so useless. The only advantage of poetry being rubbish is that poets are thick-skinned, strong-minded, and busy with cliques every day. Although they wrote a lot less good poems, they also reduced the chances of those worthless ones dying. When the poet's death is no longer beautified and worshipped, poetry writing may return to the way it should go.