关键词: 戈麦, 画像, 1990年代诗歌, 历史意识, 当代诗歌

Abstract: Portrait is an important medium for understanding Ge Mai and his poetry. While he is painting a portrait of himself，he is also shaping the image of the times，highlighting the poetic spirit in a specific domain，as well as the entanglement between the individual and the times. Reading his letters and studies on poetics reveals that he is not a loser or misanthropist，because no matter in real life or in his poetry，he demonstrates a spirit of constantly moving towards the future and an active exploration of ways to get out of spiritual predicaments. The portraits not only disclose his contradictory psychological state in the historical context of transformation，but his personal attempts to break free from mental anxiety through the dialogue with the times. Ge Mai created an upward and lofty spiritual self in an era that tended towards materialism or pursued the physical. He provided a unique perspective for an in-depth understanding of the overall situation of Chinese poetry in the 1990s.

Key words: Ge Mai, portrait, poetry of the 1990s, historical sense, contemporary poetry