"The night gave me black eyes.
I use it to find the light. "
From-Gu Cheng: a generation
This little poem with only two lines shocked the whole poetry world after the publication of the third issue of 1980 "Stars". No matter who holds a positive or negative attitude towards this poem of Romon, it has been unanimously praised.
It is brand-new in aesthetic principle. It avoids the direct expression of emotion and abandons the real narration of the scene. It does not deliberately construct a complete artistic conception, but highlights an unusual pair of "black eyes" (a symbol of a generation's awakening) on a thick black background by metaphor. It seems that you can see a beam of white light coming out of a gap in the dark clouds. The whole poem is like a three-dimensional print.
"Night" and "light" form a sharp contrast between dark and bright colors, and "black eyes" are deformed intentions and permeated with strong emotional colors. This artistic expression has aroused readers' imagination, so the suffocating times appear on the screen of imagination, distorting the younger generation who grew up in absurd reality, and the tenacious spirit of seeking broke out from the potential buried in their hearts. This is a statue of a whole generation.
A set of simple intentions of "night-eyes-light" constitute an open space-time. ............................................................................................................................... It is a unique law of poetry that ....................... expresses infinity in finiteness and profundity in simplicity. The pioneers of the new poetry tide are pursuing the return of human nature and the return of poetry itself.
This little poem embodies a style of modern beauty. It breaks the traditional harmonious composition, creates a shocking artistic effect with a disharmonious image combination, and forces people to reflect on history.
About Gu Cheng:
Gu Cheng, male, originally from Shanghai,1was born in Beijing in September 1989, 1956. 1969 transferred to Shandong northeast farm with his father, 1974 returned to Beijing. Worked as a porter, sawworker, seconded editor, etc. He began to write poetry during the Cultural Revolution, and 1973 began to learn painting and entered the stage of writing social works. From 1974, his works were published in Beijing Literature and Art, Shandong Literature and Art, Youth Literature and Art, etc. From 1977, he returned to pure writing. After his poems were published in Dandelion Tabloid, they caused strong repercussions and great controversy in the poetry circle and became the main representative of the misty poetry school. At the beginning of 1980, my unit disintegrated and became unemployed, and since then I have lived a wandering life. 65438-0985 Join the Chinese Writers Association. 1987 was invited to visit Europe and America for cultural exchanges and lectures. 1988 went to New Zealand to teach China classical literature, and was employed as a researcher in the Department of Asian Languages, University of Auckland. After his resignation, he lived in seclusion on Rapids Island. 1992 won the German DAAD Creative Annuity, written in Germany. 1993 10 committed suicide after allegedly seriously injuring his wife Xie Ye on the island where New Zealand lived. Xie Ye died a few hours after her death. Since then, rumors have prevailed and have continued to this day. He left a large number of poems, essays, calligraphy, paintings and other works. 1992 obtained the German DAAD creation annuity. 1993 won the Bohr Creative Fund and wrote in Germany. 65438+1returned to China to visit relatives in March, 1993. When the tragedy happened, the couple had just returned to New Zealand from Germany. His works mainly include Black Eyes (published by People's Literature Publishing House 1986), Welcoming Children (published by Beijing Huayi Publishing House 1994/month, co-authored with Xie Hua) and Lingtai Monologue (published by Dunhuang Literature and Art Publishing House 1 994, by Lao Mu and). There are also poems such as Life Stops There and the Soul Moves Forward, Cities, Ghosts Entering the City, From Self to Nature and I Without a Purpose. The novel Yinger was written by the poet and his wife Remy (Xie Ye) before his death.
Gu Cheng is the main author of the misty poetry school, and he has written poems such as Moon in the daytime, Selected Lyrics of Shu Ting Gu Cheng, Lonely Song of the North, Iron Bell, Black Eyes, Poems of Gu Cheng in the North Island, Poems of Fairy Tales and Fables of Gu Cheng, and New Poems of Gu Cheng, etc. After his death, his father Gu Gong edited and published The Complete Works of Gu Cheng.