Text/Chang 'an 18
April 23rd this year is World Reading Day, and I happened to receive the collection of poems and songs "Amazing World" by Yu Xiuhua, a famous online poet. I can hardly wait. I took advantage of the time between work that day and finished reading this booklet in one breath. This is a rare phenomenon in my reading history, and even I am surprised. This shows that Yu Xiuhua's poems are still very interesting, intriguing and charming, which makes it easy for people to walk into the artistic conception in her poems. I have been writing poems myself for many years, and I dare not pretend to be a poet. At most, I am a poetry lover. I like writing and reading poems. I believe I still have a good impression on the quality of poetry.
Yu Xiuhua is a middle-aged rural woman who has suffered from cerebral palsy since childhood, but she is also a born poet. She was born with a poem "Sleeping with You in Most of China", which quickly became popular all over the country and conquered countless readers. Her poems have won awards in succession, and her collection of poems sells well. She herself has been on TV and made movies, becoming a phenomenal figure that has never been seen in the cultural circles in recent decades. Anyone who has read her poems, except those who are illiterate, jealous or want to be famous through slander, is impressed by her unrestrained and lively thinking and unparalleled poetic artistic conception. I think that a person's poems can attract so many people's love, and there must be a value and reason for her existence.
Remember that the Bible says, "When God closes this door, he will open another door for you."
Yu Xiuhua was born in Hengdian Village 1976, Shipai Town, Zhongxiang City, Hubei Province, a remote and closed rural area. He became a disabled person with limited mobility because of cerebral palsy caused by birth failure and lack of oxygen. He got married and had children at the behest of his parents. However, she never succumbed to the injustice of fate, gave full play to her language talent, supported by poetry as a crutch, "a person staggered in a rickety world", resolutely walked out of the trough of life, and used poetry to shine her brilliant light, ushered in a new era of her life. So Yu Xiuhua himself is a very inspirational figure.
Yu Xiuhua's first book of poetry, The Rocking World, contains more than 100 poems selected by Yu Xiuhua himself. The content is basically about love, affection, perception of life and yearning for the outside world and freedom. Her poems are simple and full of emotion, which will make people enter her spiritual world quickly. It is said that this book won the 20 18 Hubei Literature Prize.
There are many love poems in her poems. As a disabled woman who has lived in the countryside for a long time, she has a very strong experience of the lack and yearning for love. She expressed this rich, complex and distinctive thought through her unique poetic language, which is the most touching place in her poems. In her poems, the protagonists are a "fool" and a "sick man" with inferiority complex, a narcissist who "loves his rusty spot more than you", a devotee who is willing to sacrifice your youthful blood, a fugitive who throws away human affairs and regains "bone clearing", and a lonely person who dies after the deep wound is illuminated by the cold flame of love. Her poems are full of complex meanings such as the agitation and call of love, the disillusionment of love and reality. For her, physical disability, mental pain and unwillingness, walking in the "rickety world" is the strongest feeling.
The reason why Yu Xiuhua's poems are popular is that there are both the interest of classical poetry and the lyricism of modern poetry between the lines. Her poems convey the true intention through clever language, show the pain of women's existence with her own experience, and show the value of people and the dignity of life with strong subjective spirit.