Abstract: As a cultural son of the 1980s，Haizi in writing explored the scope，extremity，and frontier of the Chinese culture in the 1980s. Haizi’s poetics resonated with the culture of the 1980s. Once Chen Weigang translated a line from Holderlin as“In this age of poverty，what’s the use of a poet？”and Haizi reversed it as“In this age of poverty，what can a poet do？”which has become popular in the Chinese society. Haizi shared a comparative poetics and comparative cultural deliberation with Liu Xiaofeng，which manifested a“cultural fever”featuring the general ideological climate of the mid and late 1980s. As a poet，Haizi also participated in the ideological construction of Chinese poetic philosophy in his own way. Similar to Liu Xiaofeng，Haizi made a cultural decision between“salvation and escape.”Ultimately，Haizi fulfilled the transformation from poetic philosophy to philosophical poetry. His poetics embodies“a phenomenological inquiry into the real meaning of value”and interacts with the comparative culture of the 1980s. Just as his poetic ideal comes from the cultural ideal of the 1980s，it also inherits the profoundest contradictions of the cultural consciousness of the 1980s.

Key words: Haizi, Holderlin, Liu Xiaofeng, comparative poetics, poetic philosophy, the 1980s, cultural consciousness