The Significance and Life Background of Gu Cheng's Poems

Gu Cheng, the main representative of misty poetry, is known as Zuoke's contemporary romantic poet. His early poems have a childlike style and dreamy artistic conception, and he sings fairy-tale juvenile life with intuitive and impressive sentences. The phrase "The night gave me black eyes/I used them to look for light" of his generation became a classic sentence in China's new poems. Later, he lived in seclusion in Riptide Island, 1993. 10 year10.8, he killed his wife, Xie Ye, in his New Zealand apartment and then committed suicide. Leave a lot of poems, essays, calligraphy, paintings and other works. His works have been translated into more than ten languages, including English, French, German, Spanish and Swedish. Gu Cheng, male, 1956, was born in Beijing on September 24th. /kloc-dropping out of school at the age of 0/2 to release pigs. He began to write poems during the Cultural Revolution. 1973 began to learn painting, and returned to Beijing the following year to work as a carpenter in Factory Bridge Street. 1977 started writing again. And became the main representative poet 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 died in an apartment in new Zealand on 10. Leave a lot of poems, essays, calligraphy, paintings and other works. Gu Cheng is the main author of the misty poetry school, and he has written poems such as Moon in the Day, Selected Lyrics of Shu Ting Gu Cheng, Song of the Lonely Man in the North, Iron Bell, Black Eyes, Poems of Gu Cheng in the North Island, Poems of Gu Cheng's Fairy Tales and Fables, Poems of Gu Cheng's New Poetry, etc. After his death, his father Gu Gong edited and published The Complete Works of Gu Cheng. In addition, he co-authored the novel Ying Er with Xie Ye. Gu Cheng's Poetry 1998 was published by People's Literature Publishing House. Poetry collection "The Moon in the Day". Gu Cheng is a representative figure of China's misty poetry school in the new period, and is known as a "fairy tale poet" who sees the world with a childlike innocence. Compared with Shu Ting's elegance, charm, beauty and sadness, Gu Cheng's poems are naive. However, in Gu Cheng's poems full of dreams and childishness, there is an adult sadness. Although this sadness is faint, it is as heavy as lead. Because this is not only the poet's personal sorrow, but also the sorrow of a generation after awakening, and the sorrow of an awakened generation to see the reality in front of them. "The night gave me black eyes, but I used them to look for light." A generation of young people who experienced the "Cultural Revolution" are familiar with these two poems by the famous obscure poet Gu Cheng (1September 1956 ~ 19931October). Vague poetry, which rose in the late 1970s and early 1980s, was an important part of the exciting ideological and literary "liberation" trend at that time, and it was also the starting point for the innovation of contemporary new poetry. The year before Gu Cheng's 50th birthday, the first volume of the four-volume Gu Cheng Literature Series-Selected Works of Gu Cheng? Northern Literature and Art Publishing House recently published Another World. Gu Cheng 1962 began to write poetry, 1987 went to Germany to attend the "International Poetry Festival" in Mü nster in May, then began to travel to Western Europe and Northern Europe, and then settled in New Zealand. On June 8th, 1993, he and his wife Xie Ye both died in Rapids Island, New Zealand. According to Liu Xiqiang, the planner of "Ancient City Literature Series", this four-volume series will last until September next year, and the whole set of selected works will be edited and annotated by Jiang, the owner of "Ancient City" website, and Gu Xiang, the sister of the ancient city. Prose works with a total of more than1.5000 words, including Gu Cheng's works from 1.992 to 1.993, are expected to show a comprehensive and three-dimensional Gu Cheng. Jiang, the stationmaster of City of Ancient City, is a senior three Chinese teacher in a middle school in Wenling, Zhejiang. She read the poetry collection Sea Basket on 1993 and began to get in touch with Gu Cheng's poems. 1994 Wen Xin, a friend of Gu Cheng's, wrote the last Gu Cheng in Poetry Exploration, and I fell in love with it from the moment I read Gu Cheng's footprints. Later, I read almost all the information I could collect about the ancient city. Gu Cheng's early Fantasia of Life, The Sea of Parting and his later Ode to the World? What Jiang particularly likes is the power of trees to swim. She summed up the greatest feature of Gu Cheng as a person with "truth", and "natural purity" is the greatest feature of Gu Cheng's poems in her mind. "His poems are not made, but from the heart. Reading his poems, you forget that you are alone. You are a ladybug, a river and a stone. This is another level of' nature'. In order to "let more people know about Gu Cheng and share his beautiful poems", Jiang founded the website "City of Gu Cheng" on 1999. However, there are also many poetry friends in those days, but now they are unwilling to "face Gu Cheng" again. I don't want to comment on him, "an influential obscure poet refused to be interviewed. Another poet who had "many contacts" with Gu Cheng before going abroad claimed that he was too busy writing cultural prose manuscripts to comment on his old friends. The editor of Today, in the book Half-Life published at the beginning of this year, has fond memories of poets such as Beidao and Munk, but not much impression of Gu Cheng. "At that time, his poems were mainly composed by North Island, and I only met him several times in public. "Most poets don't want to comment, there may be many different and complicated reasons. But Gu Cheng does give people a feeling of "living in his own castle". Sister Gu Xiang is two years older than Gu Cheng, two months and three days. The biggest feature of Gu Cheng in my impression is that I don't like to join in the fun. Gu Cheng can walk before he is one year old. " The most thing he did at that time was to walk to the big pier glass that was not high from the ground and look at himself in the mirror. Gu Cheng, who went to kindergarten, still doesn't like to join in the fun. Every time Gu Xiang picks him up, "he doesn't look for him among the children who play together. He is keen on hiding and observing trees or ants. "Gu Xiang recalled that Gu Cheng, who read widely since childhood, once told the story of Romance of the Three Kingdoms to others in order to comfort his bullied classmates and got the nickname" Story ". But when the students gathered around to listen to him, "it is still not easy to listen to his stories because he is not used to being surrounded." "But he wants to talk and want someone to listen. "In the" psychological tug-of-war "eager to communicate with the outside world and retreat to the heart, Gu Cheng had to seek his sister as his" one-person audience ". Her sister didn't have time to listen. "In desperation, he went into another room and talked to the wall alone across the bed." When the wind and waves of the "Cultural Revolution" swallowed everything up, Gu Cheng still "walked alone in the scorching sun, in the fallen leaves and in the cold wind, picked up an ancient coin on the ancient city wall and looked for grasshoppers and dung beetles in the weeds", "big speakers, rolling crowds and leaflets all over the sky" were nothing to him. He laughed at me (homesick), hated me, and forbade me to participate in group and social activities. He thought those things were boring and my classmates were vulgar. "Gu Cheng, who lives in his own" one-man castle ",has the deepest impression and the most common costume is wearing a tall hat. 1992 gave a speech in the Netherlands in June and1992 gave a speech in Germany in February. In the country of poets, a high hat is not an imaginary crown. Isn't he his own "king" Gu Cheng and his wife Xie Ye, who later raised chickens and grew vegetables on Lapitz Island in New Zealand, which also meant an independent kingdom and self-sufficiency? In the eyes of Cui Weiping, a professor at Beijing Film Academy, "Gu Cheng is a timid person, not a talkative person, but a person who retreats and likes to sit in the back." Professor Cui Weiping affirmed Gu Cheng's "great contribution" to the misty poetry school, but questioned that "the night gave me black eyes, but I used them to look for light"-"claiming that the environment is dark and I am bright" is a willful performance. It is terrible for a person not to realize the existence of shadow on himself and not to warn himself. "While observing the society, we should also reflect on ourselves. Liu Zili, an important member of "Today's Magazine", expressed fundamental doubts about whether vernacular poetry can be written, so the overall evaluation of "misty poetry" is not too high. He felt "attend to city" is just one of them, not much better than others. "Liu Zili read Gu Cheng's poems when he didn't know him." I think he writes poems like a child, mature as an old child, but not an adult. "Liu Zili believes that Gu Cheng's creation, first, pays more attention to meaning and symbol, and pays less attention to the musicality of poetry; Second, it has a fairy tale color and a so-called "urchin" character-it is a reversal of the rigid thinking mode of the Cultural Revolution, but this "resistance" way is done in a child's way. Therefore, the "urchin" is easy to get out of control in the end, which is related to his lack of poetry, personality defects and interruption of social communication. Liu Zili thinks that Gu Cheng tried to endow his poems with mystery and religiosity by prose language, but in fact, "looking for light" and "believing in the future" are not new. Common poetic features of Gu Cheng's poetic image world: 1. Symbolic metaphor; The second is abstract deformation method; The third is synaesthesia; The fourth is the object-image superposition method; Fifth, the transformation method between things and people; Sixth, the method of taking images by will; The seventh is to omit the jump method.