The second generation of poetry: hazy doctrine
The third generation of poetry: avant-garde poetry group
The poems of the first generation of poets have made a lot of useful attempts in introducing foreign forms of poetry, breaking the old tradition of poetry, expressing personal will to survive, inner conflicts, opposing the dark forces and lashing the society with new languages and new ways of poetry. But in essence and metaphysical sense, the limitations of poetry in this period are also enormous. In terms of poetic style, the poets in this period mainly devoted themselves to the introduction, digestion, reference and imitation of foreign poetic forms. Judging from the general spiritual value orientation of his poems, China's poems in this period almost all expressed some distant and ancient regional cultural ideals and narrow nationalist consciousness in an individual context and a collective context characterized by power discourse, or expressed a one-dimensional self-spiritual feeling and meaningless struggle, accusation and resistance against individual life in a highly dark and authoritarian culture.
The second generation of poetry groups refers to those poets who rose from the late Cultural Revolution to the mid-1980s. These poets are widely and persistently influenced by Taiwan Province's poems and the complex modernist cultural thoughts and literary schools in the West (symbolism, expressionism, surrealism, Dadaism, cubism, imagism, magical realism, aestheticism, existentialism, formalism, neo-romanticism, absurdity, futurism, post-modernism, etc.). Indeed, their poems have brought a strong and lasting impact on the lifeless and unremarkable poems of China, but we should also realize that their thinking is only limited to phenomena and surfaces, and they are only different from their predecessors (the first generation of poetry groups) in quantity, and have not formed an essential transcendence. The changes brought by this new literary movement (or cultural trend of thought) to China's poetry are not so much reflected in the grand and profound spiritual connotation constructed by poetry, but more reflected in the further absorption, reference and application of western modernist poetry expression methods by the second generation of poetry groups. New poetic techniques have brought new aesthetic styles and enriched the artistic expression of poetry. At that time, these heroic poems of individuals (nations) based on the context of "individual speech" and "collective speech" brought great shock to contemporary poetry circles! It was really an exciting era, and the wasteland state of poetry and the vacuum era of culture seemed to be completely destroyed. Human dignity, the meaning of life and the value of individual life seem to have been recognized and embodied, and the long and profound cultural tradition seems to have been revived and continued ... The silence, justice and conscience of an era, through the angry heroic harmony of the North Islander mixed with Sisyphus spirit and Kuafu complex, gave an ancient nation its first enlightenment and spiritual baptism, which was sometimes numb, sometimes crazy, sometimes silent, sometimes noisy, sometimes weak and sometimes tyrannical.
The third generation of poetry is the poetry created by the "third generation" poets. The so-called "third generation" poets are defined relative to the first generation poets between 1949- 1976 and the second generation poets represented by misty poetry, which generally refers to a group of poets who appeared from misty poetry to the 1990s.