Perhaps this poem best explains why Gu Cheng is called a fairy tale poet
"Fairy Tale Poet"
Shu
Ting
You believe the fairy tale you wrote
You become the blue flower in the fairy tale
Your eyes have omitted the disease
Trees, decaying walls
Rusty and crumbling iron fences
Just a simple signal
Gather the team of Stars, Milkvetch and Grasshopper
Go to the unpolluted distant place
Start
The heart may be very small
The world is very big
So, people believed in you
Believe in Tasong after the rain
There are thousands of little suns hanging down
Mulberry trees and fishing rods stretched across the river
The clouds entangled the tail of the kite
Countless shaken memories
Shaking off the dust of the years
Like pure silver The voice of
Shu
Ting)
Gu Cheng is the only "fairy tale poet" in the history of modern and contemporary poetry in my country. His "
I am a willful child" declares that he is a "child spoiled by fantasy mother/I am willful". This sentence describes his own life: letting his own ideas, stubbornly Weaving one's own dreams is Gu Cheng's persistence and his charm. In the complicated and dirty adult world, Gu Cheng is willing to "close his eyes and the world will have nothing to do with me." What he is willing to guard is the world in his own heart. He wants to "gather a team of stars, milkvetch, and grasshoppers, and set off for a distant place without pollution."
Gu Cheng believes that "poetry is on the tree of ideals. "Sparkling raindrops", he wants to use "the pure silver in his heart to cast a key to open the door of heaven" to express "pure beauty". This poetic view is based on the belief that the irreparable divisions and disharmonious pain in the real world will be resolved in the poetic view to achieve the "absolute freedom" of the human mind. This pursuit is revealed in the eyes of unexperienced children and in nature untouched by humans. "I Am a Wayward Child" adopts a child's perspective and transforms the adult world in children's ideals. The image of children in Gu Cheng's poem is like a fresh wind, beating away the dirt of the adult world. He is saving the world with his childish ideals. He wants to "paint the earth full of windows / so that all eyes accustomed to darkness / will become accustomed to light." Sad and noble, very holy. This is very powerful, and it gives insight into the mottled world. To tell all this with a child's dream is more shocking and more resonant than an adult's shout. When Bei Dao shouted, "Despicability is the passport of the despicable, and nobility is the epitaph of the noble", Gu Cheng was persistently painting "clumsy freedom". He made the river happy and made "the hills covered with light hair fall in love." ", letting "every quiet spring excitement / become the birthday of a little flower", he did not curse the darkness, but moved freedom and light into the poem, just like after a storm, everything is very calm, There is not even a speck of dust floating in the world. As if I have been baptized, the world becomes clean and my heart is not stained by dust. There are often such artistic images in Western literature. In a world full of dirty people, a very innocent child will appear. In "Doctor Faustus" by the German writer Thomas Mann, there appears such a little angel who helps the desperate musician Lévi Kuhn create brilliant music. This little angel is hope, a bright spot to balance all the sin in this world. Gu Cheng uses the eyes and heart of an unexperienced child to experience the adult world and build his own fairy tale home. When being interviewed abroad, he once specifically explained the "fairy tale". He particularly emphasized that the "child" is the "child" in Li Zhi's "childlike innocence theory", which refers to the unpolluted original heart rather than the childish heart of children. , so his poems are inhabited by "eyes that cannot shed tears", "the sky and the feathers and leaves that belong to the sky", "light green night and apples", which have moments that are "as beautiful as colored crayons".
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