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(A) talk about my superficial understanding of poetry/Qinghai Lake
In view of the activities of the poetry club, I just watched the advocacy of Blue Star, which is really good, very happy and I support it. I thought about it for a moment. I'm afraid it's difficult to operate if we talk about the creative process of a poem. Writing a poem is not like writing a novel, and it is not necessarily something to talk about. Here, I will talk about my understanding of poetry writing, hoping to attract more friends and good poetry theory and writing experience for all of us to learn from.
My understanding is that the original conception of poetry is the sand that forms pearls in pearl mussels. Because this kind of sand stimulates mussels to secrete liquid to wrap the sand, pearls are formed. Then, the origin of this sand may be a momentary idea or an epiphany after long-term thinking. It is not easy for a poet to explain his writing background, as well as his psychological state and mood at that time. Maybe there is no background, just a mood. What mood is written in the poem?
In addition, it was himself who first wrote poems. He writes about himself and others, with personality and * * *. After the poem is written, if it is recognized by everyone, it is everyone's. Your explanation has limited the imagination and connotation of poetry itself. Everyone feels differently, so poetry can only be understood, not explained.
Poetry needs skill at first, but when it is written at a certain time, there may be no skill at all. I have been inspired by Buddhism's "law has no definite law" and Taoism's "Tao is invisible" and "law is natural", and I have said the concept of "writing has no definite law" It's just that everyone's expression is different.
When it comes to poetry theory, new poetry has been exploring, and so has its poetry theory. Poetry involves many things, such as philosophy, aesthetics, psychology, sociology, literature, music art and so on. If you are not a professional poet, it is difficult to explain the theory of poetry clearly. They may only talk about their own understanding of poetry.
So, what is poetry and how to write it? There is no uniform answer. New poetry is particularly difficult to answer, because unlike old-style poetry, it is even more difficult to write well. It is constantly exploring, but whether it is avant-garde, pre-misty poetry or post-misty poetry, it comes out of those strange languages and monologues that pursue individuality. From incomprehensible and unintelligible to common people, poetry has gone down the so-called altar and entered the homes of ordinary people. Moreover, the finiteness of newspaper poetry and the infinity of the development of online poetry have become an irresistible trend, and whether it will become a new poetry revolution in the future is still unknown.
A friend once asked me what basic problems I should pay attention to when writing new poems, and I was stumped for a moment. Based on my own experience in writing poems for many years (not poetics), I think that poetry is first of all a monologue of the mind, a kind of talk, a kind of sustenance, a catharsis of thoughts and feelings, an understanding and understanding of life, life and everything, a reflection of human feelings, and a sublimation and amplification of your heart; Secondly, poetry is the art of language. Some people say that poetry is literature in literature. Poetry will make you profound, prose will make you philosophical, novels will give you insight into human nature, and prose will make you sharp-eyed. The art of language should pay attention to the connotation, information, energy and tension of language, and be restrained and concise in the use of language. Third, a good poem should have three basic elements. One is true feelings, not philosophy, and the other is artistic conception. Fourth, from the form of poetry, there are structural beauty, musical beauty, image beauty and so on.
I thought of these for the time being. The friends who come here are all experts. I think we might as well expect more friends to talk about their poems here.
Thirdly, poetry has the longest history in the history of world literature. It has been more than 2000 years since the birth of the world's first collection of poems, The Book of the Dead. In this history of more than two thousand years, many excellent poets' poems have emerged. Poetry has reached the realm of truth, goodness and beauty through exploration and perfection from generation to generation. Moreover, many poets have been constantly innovating, discussing the way and language style of poetry creation, which has formed a certain guidance and influence, thus forming a huge poetry school. In the west, there are some influential schools of poetry, such as symbolism, imagism, romanticism, futurism, seclusion, empiricism and so on. Although China's new literature is not long, it is becoming more and more mature, and he has created many wonderful works, such as New Moon, Nine Leaves, The Hazy Generation, and the well-known 1980s and The Third Road. Especially in the face of the declining status of today's poetry, poets are exploring the way out of poetry.
As a result, poetry has flowed through so many generations, and there are so many branches of poetry. What is real poetry creation? Looking at the works of many schools and poets, they can actually be classified into three categories: perceptual creation, rational creation and spiritual creation. These three ways of poetry creation reflect the formation of each poet's creation.
First, perceptual creation.
What is "perceptual creation"? Poetry is the product of the poet's life, which embodies life and is higher than life. People have to go through many ups and downs in their lives. Poetry is the creation of perceptual poetry with the theme of reflecting personal life style, creation and value, and the poetic style is either bright or dark. This kind of poetry is a mirror of life and a magnifying glass, which embodies the life course of individuals and the public with highly concentrated essence, so the sensory image is clear, appreciative and readable, and can be directly triggered.
For example, romantic poetry, crescent school, Jiuye school, post-80s poetry and other schools mostly belong to this category. The works of Hugo, La Mardin, Byron, Shelley, Xu Zhimo and Guo Moruo are full of practical and life significance, which can directly resonate with readers and immerse them in the artistic conception described in the poems. Among them, Hugo and Xu Zhimo's poetry creation can best reflect the characteristics of emotional poetry creation, especially in Xu Zhimo's masterpiece Farewell to Cambridge, "I left gently/just as I came gently/I waved my hand gently/bid farewell to the clouds in the western world ... I left quietly/just as I came quietly/I waved my sleeves/didn't take away a cloud", in which beautiful images were intertwined and personified.
Second, rational creation.
Rational creation is a highly experienced way of creation. Contrary to perceptual poetry, images are not as vivid as perceptual poetry. Very general, very representative. It requires readers to think and experience the image structure described by the poet from behind the words of the poem, so as to realize the truth. The context is profound and the aesthetic feeling is weak. They often enter poetry with objects that can't enter poetry, and they can dig out poetry with unusual eyes. This kind of poetry creation is mainly based on thinking.
Such as symbolism, imagism, futurism, empiricism, the third way and so on. The frequent use of rational creation, especially the "third way" of China's new rise, has far-reaching influence, and its purpose is to "open up another way of poetry", which is actually a rational analysis of life and life. This kind of poetry creation has the greatest influence in the history of poetry. Poets such as Eliot, Pound, Baudelaire, Pass, Fei Ming, Bian, forefinger and Haizi are all very rational, especially Eliot's The Waste Land, Pound's Poems and Pass's Sunstone. Poetry profoundly reflects the poet's world outlook, outlook on life and values, with great leap and ideological content.
Third, spiritual creation.
Spiritual creation is a creative way between perceptual creation and rational creation, but it also combines perceptual creation and rational creation. Poets lightly deal with images, have a weak context, and do not deliberately pursue beauty. However, inadvertently, a strong sense of beauty is reflected between the lines of the poem, which is hazy and seemingly directional, but after careful reading, it is floating, and most of them enter the poem with "sea" and "water drops", which are large or small images and have strong appreciation.
For example, recluse, hazy and so on. Most of them are spiritual creations, especially the generation from Gu Cheng. It seems that we can deeply understand the poetry expressed in this poem, but it seems unpredictable. Many people have been arguing endlessly and become the representative works of misty poetry.
In fact, genre is just a name, but the creative techniques are the same or similar, and its essence cannot be separated from these three creative techniques. Therefore, there is no need to prove which school one's creation belongs to. As long as one insists on one's own creative viewpoint, poetry has distinct nature and pursues true and beautiful artistic conception and context, then poetry will have its own distinctive personality characteristics, thus writing more excellent poetry works.