First, the best pure feelings, quiet and peaceful:
Xi Murong's poetry embodies the spiritual connotation of innocence, tolerance and kindness. The poet pursues absolute love and eternal love, which is reflected in many love poems such as Qilixiang and A Flowering Tree. Whether it is love, work or life, simplicity and sincerity are easy to suffer painful torture in complex events. Especially in the tide of industrial society and commerce, the estrangement and self-division between people have become a chronic disease of modern people. The poet explained to her the causes of poetry: I tried to adjust my pace to join the ranks all morning, but no one noticed my joining. I walked out of the crowd all afternoon looking for my original self, but no one cared about me. In the face of social illness, the poet expressed her philosophical thinking and caring attitude towards life with a poem The Value of Poetry: "I am like a goldsmith/beating day and night/just to extend my pain into a gold ornament as thin as a cicada's wing", "turn the source of sadness into/shiny and soft words", and at the same time express the broad sense of the past days and nature "faint sunshine and faint flowers". In the representative works such as Andante to Song, expressing the wisdom and understanding of life in a leisurely, comfortable and leisurely way and words is not only enlightening to readers but also pleasing to the eye. For readers in Chinese mainland and Taiwan Province, which are in the economic tide in the 1980s, it is tantamount to spring breeze and sunshine.
Second, popular and simple, Chinese charm:
There are no difficult sentences in Xi Murong's poems, and the language is simple but fresh and elegant, which is close to the aesthetic quality of ordinary readers. Being good at classical poetry, the poet is also good at bringing classical images familiar to readers into his own poems, which makes his poems full of China charm. Lotus heart, origin, homesickness, etc. Just like a cup of China tea, which is light and sweet, it is memorable.
Among the representatives of Taiwan Province's modern poetry, Love's poetry has classical beauty, Yu Guangzhong is melancholy, and Zheng Chouyu is a genius writer. Compared with the cosmopolitanism, transcendence and purity of the modern poetry tide in Taiwan Province Province, Xi Murong's poems have more universal human feelings. This kind of "human feelings" can be called "secular feelings", which is not only a realistic concern for the spiritual loss of modern people, but also a close concern for the aesthetic quality of the public. Whether the poet himself has such writing consciousness or not, the result of the fact has been made like this. Although the poet's creation is personal, it reflects the average poetic level of the whole era, so it can be widely recognized. At the same time, as one of the works of art in poetry, the poet still maintains the true color of poetry, which is close to the exploration of rewriting classical themes or developing ancient poetry images in modern poetry in Taiwan Province Province in the late 1970s, and also reflects the concern of the new generation for reality. Of course, this is a kind of macro care. The poet achieved great success unintentionally between personality description, realistic interpretation and artistic carving. In this regard, Xi Murong once said modestly at the 2006 Shanghai Book Fair: "I write books for myself, and I am my first reader. I think writing poetry is the most free in my life, free from human interference ... from 198 1 to 2004, from the publication of my first book of poetry to the present (2006-author's quotation). If I have to ask about the feeling of selling well, I can only say that this is my luck. "
Three, there are pictures in the poem, catchy:
First of all, Xi Murong is an excellent painter, so her poems always reveal a sense of painting. Combining Chinese and western painting techniques, she expressed her longing for eternal love, her long meditation on beautiful youth, and her helplessness and sadness over the fleeting years with sensitive and delicate pens. There are many poems and paintings in the collection of poems "Qi Li Xiang" and "Youth without Complaints", among which "Mountain Moon-One of the Old Works" is the representative. At midnight in the deep mountains, the outline of pine forest is like waves/moonlight/you say with a smile that it is not a pine tree/whatever it is, it is deep black and transparent blue/a little light blue and silvery white/and that faint green reflects you in the forest/in your forest.
The poet uses painting techniques such as color, tone, light and shade, and light to make the picture poetic, appropriate in distance, simple and light, and full of artistic conception of China ink and wash. Painting in poetry and poetry in painting are the classics of ancient Wang Wei, and they also belong to one of the creative tendencies of the "new generation" in Taiwan Province Province in the 1970s. But Xi Murong doesn't seem to have a tendency to classify himself as a generation or a faction. She is an outsider, and her poems seem to be written for herself, so they are sincere and touching.
Xi Murong's poems also have the excellent tradition of "musicality" of China's classical poems, sometimes like adagio music, sometimes like qingquan mountain spring, which is soothing and affectionate, full of charm and catchy. This also strengthens the appeal of art.
Four, female writing, graceful and lingering:
Not long ago, at the Gulangyu Poetry Festival hosted by teachers Chen, Xie Chunchi, there was a session devoted to "Women and Poetry". Among them, the representative views are "neutral writing" by Angel in Fujian, "female writing" by Shaanxi and "transitive poetry" by Mary in Guangdong. At that time, I also published a little personal writing experience, which can be summarized as "asexual writing", that is, there is no pre-existing consciousness of gender when writing. Poetry reflects the current modality, feelings and emotions, so different works of the same poet in his life have both a small emotional reflection and a broader performance. Since it is a process of civilization, the writing of female poets and male poets should first be positioned as human writing, and there should be no gender boundaries.
Xi Murong's poems are beautiful and quiet in artistic conception, simple and pure in emotion, cordial and soft in language, just like modern Li Qingzhao, which is quite graceful and touching in essence. Her gentle, charming, obsessed and sad rhetoric style is deeply branded with the patriarchal cultural context; However, the attitude, pursuit and understanding of love embodied in her poems fully embodies the independent spirit of a modern woman who accepts western civilization. At the same time, due to the awakening of women's independent consciousness, Shu Ting in mainland China took the lead in writing excellent works such as To the Oak Tree. The two men have different artistic tendencies, similar consciousness and equal influence, which are quite representative in female poetry and regional differences between compatriots on both sides of the strait.
Xi Murong is a pure artist, integrating poetry, painting and writing, with remarkable achievements. In poetry creation, Xi Murong is not only good at absorbing the nutrition of China classicism, but also follows the principle of expression centered on emotion, adopts the skills of ancient China poetry and pursues the artistic beauty of poetry. But it was also influenced by Taiwan Province's modern poems in 1950s and 1960s. Therefore, her poems can be said to be "both vulgar and elegant", which is both in line with the public and higher than the public; Higher than the public, can be accepted and loved by the public; Therefore, it opened the door to the palace of poetry for the public.