Li Jinfa's Artistic Features

Li Jinfa introduced a series of gray images into the field of poetry, taking "ugliness, strangeness and sadness" as beauty.

Ordinary poets often take white clouds, flowing water and flowers as their own images, and take happiness, ideals, harmony and other things with beauty as their themes to express their love and thinking about life. On the other hand, Li Jinfa is different. The themes of his poems are often full of ugliness, death, dreams, terror, deformity and even despair. Images include blood, sunset, dead bodies, bones, wilderness and cold nights ... These gray themes and absurd images constitute the main features of his poems. Obviously, his aesthetic pursuit was mainly influenced by Baudelaire. Baudelaire once said: "Art has a magical ability. When something terrible is expressed in art, it becomes beauty, and pain is accompanied by rhythm, which makes people's hearts full of quiet joy. " (Preface to Flowers of Evil). Under the influence of Baudelaire, Li Jinfa's poetry presents a riddle-like feature. Take his "abandoned wife" for example. This poem takes a kind of black melancholy and a kind of personal misfortune as the aesthetic object, and creates sentimental and melancholy. Putting dirty and unkempt hair in front of her eyes not only makes her unable to see people's contemptuous humiliation and cold-eyed discrimination, but also makes people unable to see human bloodshed and death. Li Jinfa's poems are full of leaps of imagination. Regarding the imagination and feeling of poetry, Zhu Ziqing once said: "The material of imagination is feeling, and how exquisite and ethereal castles in the air are built on feeling. I feel that everyone has it, but they are either keen or slow, so there is a difference between fine and thick. However, the complicated relationship between the senses is ever-changing, difficult to grasp and often fleeting. Get caught occasionally. Do you want to sort this out? It takes some time and skill to succeed in a form that can be seen. "