How to understand the aesthetic pursuit of Yang Lian's poems?

(1) Yang Lian's style is unique in misty poetry, and his epic consciousness was revealed from the beginning. He always examines and understands reality from the perspective of historical development and national struggle, and then summarizes national history with his own history. This lyrical way and perceptual angle make his poems have a broad tone of describing and summarizing the history of national suffering and struggle, showing a melancholy heroism and a heavy sense of history.

(2) Since 1980s, Yang Lian's poems have gradually moved from realistic concern to "seeking the roots" of deeper and deeper national traditional culture and meaning of life. He wrote a series of poems such as Wild Goose Pagoda, Nuorilang, Banpo, Dunhuang and Tibet, trying to construct an oriental epic in four dimensions: nature, history, reality and culture. A strong sense of life philosophy constitutes an important aesthetic feature of the above poems. For example, the Wild Goose Pagoda, with a long history and culture as the background, presents a profound psychological structure of national culture. The Wild Goose Pagoda is not only the bearing of culture, but also the embodiment of life. This poem subverts the old cultural tradition with a strong sense of modern life and reconstruction with "people" as the main body.

(3) In terms of artistic conception, Yang Lian interpreted his thoughts with complex and dense images and image group, and established a poetic composition system composed of several independent but internally related units, thus constructing a multiple spatial structure. The Ritual Soul consists of three groups of poems, Banpo shows the existence of human beings, and Nuorilang reveals the relationship between human beings and nature. Each group of poems is connected to different levels by several chapters and images.

(4) Yang Lian's poems have made contributions to contemporary poetry in reflecting on oriental culture and exploring epics. However, some poems are too idealistic, and the academic reflection on history and culture lacks the emotional support of poems.