JIANGHAN ACADEMIC ›› 2016, Vol. 35 ›› Issue (3): 59-67.doi: 10.16388/j.cnki.cn42-1843/c.2016.03.008

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Boorist Poetry:Wandering in the Shadow of Beat Poetry

BAI Jie   

  1. School of Liberal Arts,Taiyuan Normal College,Taiyuan,030012
  • Received:2016-04-28 Revised:2016-04-28 Online:2016-06-15 Published:2016-05-25

Abstract: China’ s“Boorist”contemporary new poetry was genetically affiliated to America’ s Beat Poetry. During the middle of the 1980s when they stepped into the poetry circle,the Booristpoets could both absorb Today Poetry’ s spiritual factors from Mist Poetry and underground writings of the Cultural Revolution and also widely get in touch with the large amount of translated Beat literature. From the poems,Li Yawei as a sample,one could clearly see the pull of the Beat Poetry on their change of styles. Bearing the powerful radiation of the Beat Poetry,Boorism presented the ethos and art forms that were entirely different from the traditional poetry and became the pioneer of the third-generation-poetry movement. But only after a few years,it declined and disintegrated and was unable to take the lead in the circle of the Pioneer Poetry. Its niduses lie in two aspects:the replacement of writing practice by consciousness of action and the thinning of humanistic ideals by youth passion;vicious expansion of the Cultural Revolution memories. Before it could establish its active desire of construction,Boorismwas cornered to the pole of sabotage and destruction by the two forces com? bined.

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