What is poetry? There are different opinions throughout the ages, and there has never been a clear statement. The ancients said that "poetry expresses ambition", and many people narrowly understand this "ambition" as an ideal. If this is the case, Li Bai and Du Fu are not cynics who can only write "ideal" poems. What are the pastoral, frontier fortress, landscape, romance and philosophical poems? It can be seen that the word "ambition" used by the ancients is similar to the word "world outlook" used by people today, and ideals, love and philosophy are only part of the world outlook. Even so, we can't simply define poetry as "expressing the world outlook", because all styles except poetry can have the characteristics of expressing the world outlook. ……
What kind of poem is a good poem?
For ancient metrical poems, after thousands of years of subtle influence, I am afraid that readers have already established standards in their hearts. But for modern vernacular poetry, because the running-in time is still short and it is "imported", I am afraid that just like "10,000 readers have 10,000 Hamlets", 10,000 poetry theorists will say that there are 10,000 standards, which has also caused the embarrassing situation that "modern poets have no leader" for a hundred years. Apart from the natural growth time, the main reason is that there is no relatively unified aesthetic standard, and the "master" still exists.
Can't China's modern poetry have a relatively unified aesthetic standard? Can't you make a fake stone to attack jade?
First of all, in terms of space, works that are still shining after the baptism of the history of world literature must have their existence value. Secondly, as far as history is concerned, China's ancient poems, which have a glorious history of more than 3,000 years (perhaps earlier), must also have their basis for existence. So what is the core of western literature? In Heidegger's words, it is "the questioning ability of ultimate value", that is, the sense of mission and responsibility of intellectuals. What are the memories left by thousands of years of metrical poems? Nothing more than "artistic conception"! , that is, "unspeakable." ……
China's ancient poems were restricted by feudal monarchy, which made the poet's writing leisurely, which was not available. We inherited an indescribable "width" from our ancestors' poems of Tang and Song Dynasties, and respected poetry as an art, that is, behind the superficial "height" and "width", there should be an invisible "height" and "width", that is,
"A good poem should have a height and form a question about the ultimate value of the contemporary era. A good poem should have a width and form a vast and unspeakable space with its unique naming method. A good poem should have thickness, leaving readers with a heavy harvest behind the text. "
What is a good poet?
Su Dongpo effectively expanded the cube height of Song Ci, founded the school of unconstrained style, and changed a generation of babbling sissies! He was a pioneer poet of that era! For another example, "misty poetry" effectively pulls out the deformation of the width of China's modern poetry, making it more indescribable "hazy beauty" ...
The above article comes from the Sina blog poet Ying.