JIANGHAN ACADEMIC ›› 2015, Vol. 34 ›› Issue (2): 19-25.doi: 10.16388/j.cnki.cn42-1843/c.2015.02.003

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Great Country Writing or Longing for Cardinal:Taking Four Samples to Discuss the Plight of Contemporary Chinese Long Poem Writing

YAN Lian-jun   

  1. School of Humanities,Zhejiang University of Technology,Hangzhou 310012,China
  • Received:2015-02-19 Revised:2015-02-19 Online:2015-04-15 Published:2015-03-25

Abstract: Within recent years,four Chinese long poems came out: Phoenix by Ouyang Jianghe,Longevity by Xi Chuan, Historical Records by Bai Hua, Inland Research by Xiao Kaiyu,most of which were products of that poetry strongly“turning”to complex life scene of contemporary China,and they have shown a collective steering of writing in this generation poets. It seems to have met the expectations of many readers and critics,and even have met the needs of some sinologists to look for contemporary Chinese metaphor. However,as for the plights of two aspects of contemporary Chinese long poem,the accuracy and integrity,or in terms of skill and idea,these works have many deficiencies. As looking from writing position in their writing,their non-poetic stance has not successfully been converted to word position,yet has disturbed their writing. An ideal long poem should poke away the clouds of“reality”,and show us a new charming“reality” with language,this is the cardinal it should pursue .

Key words: long poem, accuracy, integrity, metaphor, Ouyang Jianghe, Xi Chuan, Bai Hua, Xiao Kaiyu

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