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Han Dong's poem: It feels like a consciousness

■ Li Shangyu

"Sadness or Eternal Life" is Han Dong's latest poem collection, which includes the author's poem for forty years since 1982. For many readers, this is an ideal version to fully understand Han Dong's poetry. Compared with his previous poems, it more concentratedly showed Han Dong’s poetry appearance since 2002. Through this collection of poems, you can not only clearly see the changes in Han Dong's writing, but also concentrate the attention of reading on him. Twenty years of writing. As a "senior" enthusiast of Han Dong's poetry, I have read Han Dong's poems for more than 20 years, especially in 2013, published from the collection of poems of "Re -Man", I opened a tracking reading mode. At that time, I really felt that Han Dong completed the transformation from important contemporary poets to outstanding poets, and now I am more firm in my views. The outstanding poets I call refers to this identity that has been separated from the relationship with the times, surpassing the limitations of time, and its works can be passed on to later generations.

"Sadness or Eternal Life: Selected Poems of Forty Years of Han Dong: 1982-2021"

Han Dong

Yazhong Culture · Beijing United Publishing Company

July 2022

Pursuing the body of poetry, discard functionality

Twenty years ago, I found that Han Dong's poems changed for the first time. From that song "Grie Gaoli Single Melody Song", it was still very obvious compared to the previous change. But at the time I was not sure if this was accidental. Until the publishing of "Re -Man", I can clearly see changes that exist within their writing. This change can only be said to be a constant change. For Han Dong, this change compared to his previous writing -it can be traced back to 1982 -in fact, it has not changed. His pursuit of his artistic ideals is consistent However, this change is inevitable.

Due to the atmosphere of the poetry of the times, although Han Dong's early poetry also pursued the authenticity and freedom of life, it objectively had the "confrontation" nature of aesthetic, such as the "revolution" in "The Great Wild Goose Pagoda". If Han Dong's poetry is staged, I personally divide it before 2002 and after. In the past two decades, he seemed to have been preparing for the following "letting go" and "freedom"; after 2002, his writing was an inevitable result of the first two decades, and it was the ingredient of freedom to surpass time limit. He worshiped, and thus realized the beauty and purity of poetry in the absolute sense.

As early as 1983, Han Dong's poetry highlighted poetry as the most universal element of art: daily life, feeling, and language. In the poem "Relevant Big Wild Goose Pagoda", he overcomes the inertia of a era of writing, overcomes the poetic disease of Chinese poems such as historical imagination, ethnic fables, etc., and wrote the feelings of daily life in daily language. The Big Wild Goose Pagoda he wrote is the simple and simple big goose pagoda in his heart. This image is pure visual, and the image presented in his heart. This visual image is to filter the image of politics, history, and culture. It is Han Dong's most authentic life feeling. Therefore, in contemporary poetry, Han Dong first presented the feeling of daily life in the soul in the soul in the earliest language, and consciously pursued the body of poetry. At the same time, he also completely abandoned the functionality of poetry. Han Dong's writing is the first writing. Readers should also understand daily life, feelings, and language within the category of firstality. Han Dong said that "the poem is until the language", it seems to be talking about language, but in this sentence, it also includes daily life and feelings. Language, daily life, and feeling, these three are trinity.

▲ Han Dong, an important poet and novelist in contemporary Chinese literature, the iconic character of "Third Generation Poetry", and one of the representatives of "New Status Novels". In 2016, he directed the film "At the Wharf" and was shortlisted for the new wave competition unit of the Busan International Film Festival. He is the authored collection of poems, novels, short medium stories, prose and ideological essays. Won a number of literary awards including the 8th "Lu Xun Literature Award and Poetry Award".

"Feeling power of daily life"

It feels like a important factor in Han Dong's poetry. We must never ignore this. This feeling is not even psychological. Its existence in poetry is not a lyrical condition. On the contrary, Han Dong's poetry does not pursue lyricism. It feels like the existence of philosophy in his poetry.

I don't even want to use the word "philosophy" to locate this feeling, because the word is even difficult to accurately express my meaning. Feeling is a consciousness, which is closely related to the element of "daily life". We will find that his poems, especially after 2002, are almost born in daily life after 2002. In my opinion, compared to the long -term "personalized historical imagination" that many people talked about, Han Dong invented the "daily life" of poetry in pursuit of poetry. It is the infinite nature of this feeling that contemporary poetry returns from history to poetry itself. It is ancient. Get a sense of life that can intuitively obtain in daily life and write it out. This is the oldest craft of Chinese poetry.

Solved a poetic problem

So when reading Han Dong's poetry, we will feel that it is "China", which is due to the way of the generation of poetry. I can't discuss this topic here. I can only say that the generation of this poem is completely different from Western poetry. It is very similar to many poems in the Book of Songs, and it is very similar to "Nineteen Poems", and even like countless Tang poems and Song poetry. However, the difference is that Han Dong wrote in a very present Chinese. This language is the language of Chinese people today, including the tone. So, I really feel very magical: he reminds me of the paradox of Podlair aesthetic modernity. When a pure poem is thoughtful, it must be the most modern and oldest. The most transcendence. The poetry generated by phenomenology has made Chinese poetry tend to be subtle in the presence of feeling, which is really admirable. This poem in "Sadness or Eternal Life" can be discussed too much in poetics. In addition to the above, there are also, —— Han Dong solved us such a poetic problem: Can poetry involve ethics on the premise of maintaining its high purity? This pair of Han Dong may not be a problem, and he solved it so easily. But this is a problem that contemporary poetry, even for century -old poems, has not been able to solve it well. Many poets are obsessed with one end and even go to extremes. This pair of poets who value poetry social functions can also understand. However, it is too emotional to many poets who have not been able to break the aesthetic "I" who have not been able to break the aesthetic "pioneer" standard.

So when I read Han Dong, I even relieved: it turned out to be so simple. The answer is like this, or Han Dong's poetry is the answer to new Chinese poems. His writing has gained a freedom of surpassing time limit.

■ Han Dong's poems in recent years

"Miracle"

Jiangsu Phoenix Literature Publishing House

March 2021

"Han Dong's Poems"

Jiangsu Phoenix Literature Publishing

January 2015

Two poems

Night of the epidemic area

On the night of the epidemic area, I saw a dog

After turning over the trash can, I ran down a straight path.

So relaxed, full of rhythm, no one in the eyes.

Just like that dog is outlined by the gray wind

Mercedes -Benz is on the road that is opened for it.

We are lonely because no one else is with us

It is lonely because no one does not have a dog with it.

If we are happy, it is because no one

Its pleasure is probably double.

The wind is gray and the stars are shining.

Autumn and winter words

--Autumn

It's raining, but this is not a mood of rain

Autumn, this is not the coolness of autumn

When a piece of music is not played

A kind of thought is in the skull of the body

The meaning of life is the secret of the truth

My eyes are repeated by the scars on the poplar tree

--winter

In winter, thank you for the brilliant days

In middle age, thanks to the blood that is still the body

Near the hustle and bustle city, thank you for the silence of the cemetery

In the dark soul

Thanks not to exist

Thank you for your impossible existence

(The above poems are taken from "Sadness or Eternal Life")

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Edit: Chen Zhangwei

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