In April 2022, the headline poet of "Stars" was Yu Xuan. "Stars" publishes 5 poems by Yu Xuan under the title of "Letter". I looked at it, and among these 5 poems, there was only one "letter to a friend" related to "letter". So let's take a look at this poem.
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After reading this poem, I have a strong feeling that I have written about it in the previous article, that is, the current poets seem to be "Buddhist". Or rather, they seem to be living in another world, not in the "human world."
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In this poem, there is the sentence "Let you see that the houses of the world are short and small." This seems to prove that the poet is not in the "human world." The word "human" is generally used, which is compared to "non-human". For example, "The april of the human world is exhausted, and the peach blossoms of the mountain temple begin to bloom", which is to use "human world" to compare the "mountain temple".
"If the heavens are affectionate and the heavens are old, the right way in the world is vicissitudes", and the "human world" here is compared with the "heavens". "Dancing to clarify the shadow, how it seems to be in the human world", the "human world" here is compared with the "heavenly palace que". What about the "human world" in Yu Xuan's poem? It describes a human scene. So why use the word "human"? Aren't poets in the "human world"?
The favorite person to use the word "human world" when writing poetry is Professor Li Bo, who roughly counted and used the word "human world" more than a dozen times to write poetry. Perhaps, some people call Professor Li Bo a "male god of poetry", but he really thinks that he is no longer in the "human world" and has become a god?
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In Yuxuan's poem, "Between provinces, there is a letter that is too late to write to you", as if it was thirty years ago. If it had been written thirty years ago, we would have believed it. But now that communication is so developed, who else writes? This seems to prove once again that the poet is not in the "human world."
In April 2022, the headline poets launched by the China Poetry Network, how can they invariably share this taste? "Mountain Flower" headline poet Ye Deqing, "Rain Flower" headline poet Zhao Xuesong, etc., in their poems, there is a strong smell of "not in the world".
This is obviously not an isolated phenomenon, but a custom in the poetry world. Such a trend is obviously wrong. Poets should write poems close to life and keep up with the times, rather than looking at the world coldly, let alone away from the world. Poets live in the human world, and only when they have feelings can they become poetry.
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But now that poets write poems that are not "human", is it not worth entering the world into poetry? Not really, but the poets were indeed far away from the world. They wander in a fictional life, they fictionalize the poetic world, for the sake of "poetry", for fear of getting a little "human" breath.
It is no wonder that today's poetry is always criticized. This kind of ungrounded work, the first time I read it, I think it's OK. The second time I read it, I was a little bored, and the third time I read it was still like this, then I would be sick to my stomach.
Why do major publications choose such works as headline poets? Have they discussed it? This shows that the poetry world from top to bottom, from editor to poet, is such an attitude, the farther away from the world the more poetic.
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This is not Yu Xuan's fault, nor can it be blamed on The heads of Ye Deqing, Zhao Xuesong and others, this is the fault of the general direction of the poetry world. The poet is still "man" rather than "god", and grounding is the basic condition, and cannot float outside the "human world".
Today's poets are very contradictory. When I wrote poetry, I was not in the human world, but at other times, I enjoyed the fireworks of the human world. They eat and drink spicy, they play in the mountains, they have fame and fortune, and they live very comfortably in the human world. They write poems that are not in the world in order to obtain the capital to enjoy the world, and this division is "very poetic".