Since it was during the summer vacation, the entire dormitory building was very deserted, and there were not even a few ghosts to be seen.
"Snapped!"
Sun Zuoyun swatted a mosquito to death and turned his attention back to the manuscript paper. His upper body was exposed, wearing a pair of shorts and a pair of low-quality slippers. This look would have as many hanging threads as possible. However, what he was writing was
This article is destined to be recorded in the history of modern Chinese literature.
Sun Zuoyun was born in Liaoning, Northeast China, which means that he is now an exiled student.
His college career was very bumpy. He graduated from the High School Affiliated to Northeastern University at the age of 19. He could have been recommended to Northeastern University without taking the exam. However, he went to Shanghai alone and got close to Fudan University based on his ability.
Sun Zuoyun had been studying at Fudan for less than a year when the "December 128 Incident" suddenly broke out and the Japanese invaded Shanghai. Fudan students initiated the organization of a volunteer army. Sun Zuoyun resolutely joined the army, dropped out of school and joined the 19th Route Army, which was actively resisting Japan. He was responsible for
Deliver ammunition to the soldiers fighting the enemy on the front line.
The battle was fought in a confused manner, and China and Japan actually reached a peaceful truce, and the Fudan student army was also disbanded.
Students like Sun Zuoyun were in embarrassment. They couldn't become soldiers and couldn't go to school. In anger, Sun Zuoyun simply ran north and was successfully admitted to Peking University that year.
Sun Zuoyun will soon be in his third year of college. He saw Zhou Hexuan's new poem "Praise" a few days ago and decided to write something.
Just think of it as writing your graduation thesis in advance.
There were more than a dozen reference books on the desk, plus a thick stack of magazines. Sun Zuoyun was writing with great energy, and soon lines of pen words appeared on the paper.
"On 'Modern' Poetry"
(1) Three stages of evolution of new Chinese poetry
Starting from Mr. Hu Shi's "Anthology", new poetry has a history of more than ten years... Now new poetry has reached the most confusing path. New writers are all new and different, and the unfixed form of new poetry has also caused
One of the causes of confusion…
I divide the development of new poetry into three stages: 1. Guo Moruo era, 2. Wen Yiduo era, and 3. Zhou Hexuan era.
Issue 1: There were many writers in Guo Moruo's era, and they were also very complex. However, although the poems of this era were different in terms of artistic conception and content, their common features were that the form was not fixed and they did not pay attention to rhyme...
The second issue: represented by Mr. Wen Yiduo and Xu Zhimo. Mr. Xu’s poetry is characterized by fluentness, clarity, and gorgeousness... The poet of the same school as Mr. Wen is Mr. Chen Mengjia. Mr. Chen’s poems have both artistic conception and form.
A poet who is not limited by others and can best express himself... The characteristics of this school of poetry are the evenness of form, the rhythm of syllables, and the materials used are more advanced than others.
The third issue: Mr. Zhou Hexuan is the representative, and Mr. Zhou's fellow students include Dai Wangshu, Shi Zhecun, Li Jinfa and others. The beginning of this school of poetry is Mr. Zhou's "Answer", "Despicableness is the pass of the despicable,"
"Nobility is the epitaph of the noble", two simple sentences describe all the ugliness in the world. This poem uses novel and magnificent images, which has brought many influences to later poets. This style of poetry is now the most popular in the domestic poetry circle.
Poetry style, especially after 1932, most new poets belong to this school, which is a temporary fashion. Because the poetry of this school is still growing, there is only a common tendency without an obvious banner, so we have to use
It is named "Modern Poetry" because most of this type of poetry was published in "Modern" magazine.
(2) Characteristics of modern poetry
The characteristic of modern poetry is that poets want to abandon the beauty of poetry's words, or ignore the beauty of words, and pursue the beauty of poetry's imagery. Their poems do not rely on music and rhythm, so they do not emphasize rhyme and rhyme, and therefore the form is uneven.
From this aspect, modern poetry is a reaction to Crescent Poetry. They advocate using new vocabulary and abandoning old vocabulary that has been worn out by people, but those who can have new suggestive power should also use the old vocabulary... Take
Take Mr. Zhou's new work "Praise" as an example. There are 19 lines in the first stanza, and only 3 lines fit the rhyme... Mr. Dai Wangshu's "Wangshucao" is also a typical work of this school of poetry. I have seen countless young people
Poets imitate it..."
Sun Zuoyun's paper has a total of 10,000 words. He listed Hu Shi as the forerunner of Chinese new poetry, and then divided the development of new poetry into three stages. The leading figure in the first stage was Guo Moruo, and the leading figure in the second stage was Xu Zhimo and
Wen Yiduo, the leaders of the third stage are Zhou Hexuan and Dai Wangshu.
Well, by accident, Zhou Hexuan became the originator of Chinese "modernist" poetry.
In the article, Sun Zuoyun also discussed the current situation of poetry creation. He said:
"After 1931, Chinese politics became more and more high-pressure. Poets were born with no flattery, no ability to flatter others, and they were not satisfied with the current society. Every writer fell into a quagmire of despair... and because of the Northeast Incident, the tragic ancient country
, one-fifth of the country's land will be lost in less than a year... What can we do if we are not pessimistic?
Modern poetry often expresses pessimistic and nihilistic thoughts. Therefore, in the past three years, modern poets have proliferated and flourished, forming a large sect. However, their creations have many shortcomings, such as unfounded moaning, scattered structure, and
Art and art, for example, tend to deal with morbid themes.
Mr. Zhou Hexuan's "Praise" provides an example for the creation of modern poetry. Its intention is healthy and progressive; its structure may seem loose, but in fact it is perfect and self-contained; although its rhyme is irregular
, but it is smooth and smooth, and it is catchy to read; its use of imagery is at its peak, and there is no deliberate piling up... Today's young poets should really read more of Mr. Zhou's poems, and don't let their own creations enter the poem.
dead end……"
Sun Zuoyun's "On Modern Poetry" was published more than half a year earlier than in history. It aroused great discussion as soon as it came out.
"Modernist" poetry finally has its own name.
In this poetry school, Zhou Hexuan is the founder and leader, Dai Wangshu is equivalent to the deputy leader and chief protector, Shi Zhecun, Bian Zhilin and others are some of the elders in the church. As for the "Misty Poetry School" that emerged decades later
", is just a branch of the "Modern Poetry School". Gu Cheng's status is probably equivalent to the headmaster of the outer sect.
Young poets across the country have gone crazy, imitating Zhou Hexuan's "Reply" and "Praise", and even directly dismantled and reorganized the original sentences, and then put them into their own poems.
If Guo Moruo was the poetry idol 15 years ago and Xu Zhimo was the poetry idol 10 years ago, then Zhou Hexuan is the poetry idol now.
Whether they are girls in the boudoir or patriotic young people, they all hold Zhou Hexuan's new poems as if they are treasures.
It is a pity that Zhou Hexuan's poetry output is too small, and there are no more than ten poems so far, which makes his admirers feel very regretful.
After more than ten years of development, Chinese vernacular poetry has finally matured. Zhou Hexuan unintentionally added fuel to its fire and left an unshakable historical status.