On October 8, 1993, Gu Cheng killed his wife Xie Ye on Waiheke Island in New Zealand. It is difficult to convince some people to justify Gu Cheng's behavior as "childish". They compare Gu Cheng to pure aesthetics, but Gu Cheng has no sense of boundaries in the real world. Poetry is not a cover for natural rebellion, it is something that cannot be criticized. Used to ward off violent crimes.
1. Children’s Fantasy in Gu Cheng’s Poems
Gu Cheng is a poet of the Hazy School. He was born in 1956, and his interactions with his peers inspired him when he was in his teens. The urge to write poetry. It can be said that his creations come from natural enlightenment. For Gu Cheng, his judgments on the noise of nature, life and death, and human nature are all from a child's perspective, and he believes that everything in the world is worthy of praise. Until 1974, when he returned to the city from the decentralized countryside, he became extremely unsuitable to the ways and life of modern civilization, so he was particularly willing to build a beautiful fairy tale world in his heart. So far, he has become the most famous poet in all modern poetry. Zhongdu has endless yearning for nature, but he escapes from human society. He is a man who lives in his own childlike imaginary world, which he controls. 2. Anger leads to tragedy
Gu Cheng and his wife Xie Ye settled on Waiheke Island. This is the only castle built by Gu Cheng himself that can be separated from the real world. Here, Gu Cheng shows full expression as a poet and must live a leisurely and contented life in his own poems. So after he was dismissed from the University of Auckland, he began to live here for a long time. However, the heavy loan pressure and daily expenses soon overwhelmed the two people who had no savings, so they tried their best to live in poverty. Gu Cheng's control over Xie Ye was also very "violent". He seemed to be the master of this whitewater island. He wanted to control everything on it, including his wife. He wanted to create a deliberate and manufactured virtual life to escape from real life. This childishness ultimately led him to break up with Xie Ye, leading to the tragedy.
The poetic spirit contained in the poet is to rebel against power, but when he uses this power in life and becomes a person who criticizes others, he cannot be enlightened with childishness. Gu Cheng is a representative of the Misty Poetry School, and the Misty Poetry School itself pursues equality and freedom. On this point, Gu Cheng completely goes against it, so when Gu Cheng kills his wife, he cannot use childishness to cover it up. past.