Reading Zhan Mao's collection of poems "I am the Child of Muse", we will find that under the influence of maternal love, innocence and nature, Zhan Mao, like many other poets, has an indissoluble bond with poetry. His first poem, written when he was six years old, was dedicated to his mother's true childlike innocence: Mom came back/bought me a lot of delicious candy/I'm going to grow up/bought a lot of candy for my mother. The first poem ("Mom") vaguely predicted the poet's later poetic style and thinking characteristics, and Zhan Mao has been following this true and pure road since then. For example, in the face of the beauty and gifts of nature, the poet expressed naive gratitude: I also want to give the water in the stream to little flower Cao Cao to drink. (Spring) Because it is sincere from the heart, this kind of effort is covered with stubbornness and even martyrdom. In the poem Go, Zhan Mao wrote: Even if there are too many roads, you just follow your own ideas/go your own way. Anyone who knows Zhan Mao knows that this is not youthful and frivolous, but a promise that is still practiced by poets without regret today.
Broad and profound love and positive and healthy personality earned him the title of "Sunshine Young Poet". Indeed, in Zhan Mao's early poetry creation, it is difficult for us to hear the voice that is not harmonious with life; Even if there is a little bit of distress and faint sadness, it is also filled with the sweetness and joy that teenagers don't know the taste of sorrow. Autumn fairy tales, how I want to get lost again, stars, walking towards the sun, fifteen or sixteen years old, our age is poetry and so on. , are poetic writing of juvenile feelings. The language of poetry is particularly close to the poet's mind, and naturally it has reached a harmonious realm. Of course, the passage of time and the change of environment also urge poets to think about the philosophy of life hidden behind them, but this kind of thinking inevitably brings innocence and ignorance to teenagers, such as begging for heaven, going far away, teachers, old farmers, history, passing through the customs and so on. The young poet is so earnest in seeking and questioning that we are really moved by reading. If the clear stream slides over the smooth pebbles without any stagnation, what reason can we blame the shallowness of the stream? Later, Zhan Maocai, a "sunshine boy", gradually broadened his horizons, and his "poetry sunshine" shone into a deeper ideological tunnel and spread to a wider field of concern. It is also about maternal love, and the poet has a deeper understanding: how to praise mother/in the bumpy ideological journey/through the lamp of life/mother is the birthplace of strength. (How to praise mother) Putting maternal love in the position of "cradle of strength" comes not only from the poet's instinct, but also from his rational thinking. In pursuit, trekking and yearning (poetry), poets draw strength and inspiration from waterfalls, deserts and forests. He called the Great Waterfall "an enduring river" and expressed his determination to pursue forever: I am chasing mountains, rivers and oceans/I am chasing your birth, your growth and your destination; When the poet looked for a lonely life in the "desert", he firmly said: I will not waver or regret the lonely journey I chose; In the dialogue with "Dalin", he even proudly announced: I am the poetic soul of Dalin for five thousand years. Although countless poets seek creative source and life epiphany from nature, Zhan Mao's discourse mode is unique "this" after all and has its own significance. In addition to the "deep" dimension, the poet's "sunshine" also shines on the "wide" dimension. In the poems Friendship and We Are Friends (two poems), the young poet showed us his broad humanistic care. "We have blue eyes and black eyes/we have white skin and yellow skin/we are sincere friends as long as we meet." (Friendship) "Oh, little Milla/his teenager's face clings to me/I see his clear eyes/a string of tears falling/he says the world is you and me." (We are friends wandering in Milla) People should care about each other because they live on the same earth; Only with friendship and love can people form a harmonious world. Zhan Mao stepped out of the category of fairy tales here, and then endowed poetry with profound connotation.
It is worth pointing out that I am the child of the Muse is a collection of poems with a long time span, and some poems have gone far beyond the "fairy tale world". Mr. Ling Ying said in the postscript "An Eternal Fairy Tale": "I suspect this is an illusory fairy tale." This suspicion is not groundless. The three groups of poems, The Feeling of Death (Poetry Group), Everything Begins from scratch (Poetry Group) and Storm and Thunder (Poetry Group), have played discordant voices in the poetry collection, showing the clues of the poet's future direction. Thinking and feeling about reality, as well as confusion, boredom and anger after clear thinking, have become the baggage that the poet can't get rid of when he wanders forward. In The Feeling of Death (Poetry Group), the poet tries to describe people's thinking activities at the time of dying, but the focus is still on the "tomorrow" after the phoenix's nirvana: close your eyes/firmly believe in tomorrow/the moment you open your eyes/you will be exposed to strong sunlight. Its style is still fresh and clear. Through "everything from the beginning (poetry)", the poet has a profound doubt about the cycle of history. "We were born on a certain day/we had a happy smile from our mother/we died on a certain day/we had a sad cry from our children//one day came and then left." As the master of all things, should human beings repeat themselves in eternity? Young poets began to touch on the philosophical question of "where I came from and where I will go". Finally, let's take a look at Storm and Thunder (Poetry Group), which won the Yao Lu Youth Literature Award. This group of poems marks a peak in the early stage of Zhan Mao's poetry creation. He mapped four kinds of natural phenomena to four kinds of characters, such as "friend", "lover", "mother" and "teacher", which showed the poet's understanding of nature and personnel in all directions. The warmth and haste of the wind are like the psychological feelings and time feelings between friends; Rain becomes the poet's tangled love image; The contrast between the lightning rod struck by lightning and the needle in the mother's hand reflects the depth and breadth of maternal love; There are some similarities between electricity breaking darkness and the light of soul brought by teachers. Enthusiasm, lingering, gratitude, resentment, and various emotions are intertwined; The connotation of poetry presents a tendency of "fuzziness", which fully shows the elasticity and essence of poetry language. Reading Zhan Mao's poetry collection "People in the Sense of Life", we will be pleasantly surprised to find that when poetry is in an awkward position, there are still poets like Zhan Mao who stick to their elite position and March persistently and circuitously to the center of the times. His poems not only retain the original "fairy tale" nature, but also add many new features. The poetry collection "Man in the Sense of Life" has precipitated the poet's painstaking efforts in the past ten years and truly recorded his personal experience in a life course. "So some worlds are gone/new worlds have not yet been established." ("What's the matter? The poet is clearly aware that under the impact of the current economic tide, the fairy tale world he built in his childhood has drifted away helplessly. But he didn't give up this last spiritual refuge, and still sang the pastoral song in his heart; What is commendable is that the poet, driven by integrity and conscience, angrily questioned and questioned the unreasonable history and present situation; And further think about the potential reasons behind the phenomenon, so as to try to establish a new value, ideal and order.
Zhanyi always loves the poetic narration of friendship, love and affection, and her feelings tend to be rational and deep. Forgetting, that summer, warmth, my brother's songs, the past of my old house, poems for my lover when I was young, and so on. Can be regarded as an organic continuation of Zhan's original style. Times have changed, but Zhan Mao has maintained his innocence and tolerance with sincere faith and tenacious tenacity, so this part of his poems has a particularly touching feeling. For example, "The Past of the Old House": Grandpa looked at me with vicissitudes of life/told me something before I was born/I heard a long tune outside the wall/it was a crying flute. The poem is full of homesickness, low, calm and light, like grapes and wine hidden in the cellar for many years, which makes people feel slightly drunk. Another example is Poem for Lovers, which fictionalizes a love story of "they are still clinging to each other in the mud", and makes a thrilling love confession to their ideal "lovers": Dear, in the future, we will be buried together/born together, we will go through all the world/cold and warm, and we will continue to love each other and never part. There are so many love stories of Liang Zhu that have been circulated for thousands of years, and they are so stupid! Thanks to this poet, in today's materialistic world, his poems still leave us an emotional oasis. "People in the sense of life" also angrily questioned and questioned the unreasonable history and present situation. Zhan Mao is not only a sincere poet, but also an intellectual with conscience and sense of responsibility. Two misunderstood people, Down with the Times, My Motherland, The Artist Singing, Child Labor, Mourning for the Peasant Woman, The Great Farmer, etc. , are works with feelings for unreasonable history and reality. Long poem "Down with the Times (Cultural Revolution? 1966- 1976? ) is the masterpiece of this kind of work, with epic style and momentum. This poem vividly depicts how irrational people criticize the innocent "Li Gang" to death in the frenzied atmosphere of the times. "Da" skillfully uses the long sentence pattern to narrate, decodes the previous text symbols, and then carries on the brand-new coding, giving readers a refreshing feeling. Long poems basically use the words of the Cultural Revolution, such as the ending sentence, "In this era, people are marching on the golden road of revolution with the feelings of three faiths and four infinity, so they are full of vitality and fighting spirit. "These unique words of the Cultural Revolution, through the poet's re-coding, achieved unexpected ironic effect. Similarly, those poems that reflect real problems are quite distinctive, such as the poem "The Big Farmer". The poet called the peasants "truly great people in this society", "You have walked through the city where you raised them/I am so excited to see your weak back". Through Moving Behind, we can easily see that its critical edge points to the unreasonable urban-rural relationship and the distorted mentality of urban people.
The largest proportion of poems is philosophical sentiment poems, which indicates that Zhan Mao's thought is developing in infinite depth. The author is divided into three levels to discuss: First, ugly flogging. Faced with the ugliness in life, it often leads to the result of "angry poets". It is in the process of appreciating ugliness that Zhan Maocai created many remarkable philosophical poems, such as "The world, mankind, people and people, this is their world" and "The shameless are fearless". Behind the poetry of calm narration, angry condemnation or cynicism is the power of criticism. For example, a shameless man is fearless: he does unreasonable things/is conspicuous and interesting//he thinks he can live without eating/walks leisurely in the street without underwear. Here, the poet plays the "child" in Andersen's The Emperor's New Clothes and boldly tells the truth. The disgusting face of the "shameless person" will not be revealed. The second is to restore the knowledge and understanding of common sense. 1+ 1=2, golden light, two halves of time, why people live, human nature and other works are the best evidence. Due to the influence of various external forces, we often can't correctly understand and understand the most basic common sense; If everyone has the consciousness and courage to know common sense, many tragedies in history and reality can be avoided. Jamie's efforts here are very meaningful. He said: 1+ 1=2 is the basic principle of our communication/those who say 1+ 1= others are doubtful. Simple to almost clumsy language, in fact, implies how profound the intention! The third is personal overall perception and reconstruction efforts. On the basis of the first two, the poet also made a very conscious philosophical summary, which can be seen from his poems such as Understanding, Confessions of Life, Me and Me, Despair ○, Lifestyle, Believe in Love and Nightcrawler's Quotations. The poem ○ Despair ○ is the total outburst of emotions accumulated by Zhan Mao for many years. ○' s image is obviously the poet's self-portrayal. His reflection and despair on history, reality and self are shocking, and his torture of life has reached a cruel level, which has shocking power. In other poems, the poet made reconstruction efforts, trying to find a fundamental answer, so that the lost modern people can get spiritual comfort. This spirit of searching up and down itself has a certain martyrdom color. Throughout Zhan Mao's poetry creation, the following three points are quite prominent: First, the construction of "fairy tale world" in Zhan Mao's poetry. Poetry is essentially a dialogue between life and the world. Zhan Mao's poetry creation begins with writing about maternal love, innocence and nature, which is the best way for human beings to talk with the outside world. In the process of constructing the fairy tale world of poetry, Zhan Mao took a very pure road, and he completely exposed his heart, so the beautiful poems flowing from his works were not melodramatic at all. What is more valuable is that the poet is not confined to his personal world and sighs for himself. He shines the sunshine of his poems on the vast world he can pay attention to and sincerely soothes the tired and confused hearts of modern people. Walking into the fairy tale world of Zhan Mao, we can stay away from the noise of the world for a while and truly feel the existence of truth, goodness and beauty in this world. This is the power of pure love, the power of eternal youth and the power of Zhan's "fairy tale world".
Secondly, the poet took poetry as a sharp weapon and made a fierce criticism of the false, evil and ugly in history and reality. Here, Zhan Mao seems to appear as the negative image of "sunshine young poet"; In fact, there is a high degree of internal consistency between the two, and people who love truth, goodness and beauty will inevitably sneer at the false, evil and ugly. Poets face up to their fairy tale world and get farther and farther away from themselves in real life. He didn't flinch, but took on the responsibility of an intellectual without hesitation. Thus, in Zhan Mao's immature poetic world, there appeared a wonderful work of "dancing for unity, always striving for it". Of course, the poet is not familiar with the life of the bottom people, and his satirical poems are a little too straightforward and superficial, but this does not prevent him from expressing his just voice. Our most terrible thing is: "daily life makes us numb to things, and we only accept things with simple cognition." Things are in front of us, but we turn a blind eye. "(shklovsky) Jamey just used what shklovsky called" defamiliarization "to call back our perception of things.
Finally, it was Zhan Mao who made a fruitful exploration of the philosophy of life. The poet sticks to his spiritual home and tries to follow life into a new realm step by step. In his poem, he put forward "life doctrine": life is the whole meaning of living! /Life contains everything! /Life is the ultimate goal that people pursue! /Life is centered on happiness! /Life is the most important thing in life. Of course, life is an existing daily process and cannot be a transcendental spiritual sustenance. As mentioned above, Zhan Mao strives to find the values, ideals and order that can become the ultimate concern of modern people. His spirit of continuous exploration and courage of introspection add luster to his poems. As Mr. Lu Xun said: "Although you know that the road ahead is a grave, you are resisting despair, because I think despair is hard to resist. You are braver and more tragic than those who fight for hope." The exploration of young Zhan Mao in the philosophy concerning the fundamental survival of contemporary people is of great significance. We need more spiritual home watchers like Zhan Mao instead of blindly deconstructing and escaping!