This year is the second time that poet Yan An has come to participate in the Chengdu International Poetry Week. In October last year, he was also invited to Chengdu to hold a poetic lecture and poetry recital with the theme of "Modern Chinese Poetry: The Road to Writing Destiny in the Era of Cosmopolitan Writing". At this year's Poetry Week, Red Star News reporters also interviewed this famous poet from Shaanxi.
Referring to the relationship between the community of human destiny and poetry, Yan An believes that there is a close connection between countries, cultures and cultures, and nations and nations in the development of mankind to today. Poetry needs to capture the human condition, to understand each new state, new development and new advancement of the human group, "for example, the height of modern urbanization is the height of the globalized human destiny." At the same time, Yan An also believes that poetry is an important indicator of the modern development level of a modern city.
"The pandemic is now raging around the world. Although the epidemic has been relatively well controlled in China, it is still affecting all mankind, and from this point of view, the epidemic has also affected each of us. "Yan An said that in the past, the understanding of the community of human destiny was not so strong, and when the epidemic swept the world, many people more deeply understood the significance of the community of human destiny." Maybe it was just some elite people thinking about this question before, but today it may be an ordinary person, a person who lives in the mountains, who also thinks about the topic of the fate of mankind. ”
What is the modern meaning of epidemic poetry? For this problem, Yan An believes that the epidemic is that nature presents itself to human beings in another way and gives certain enlightenment. The poetry of the epidemic is the ultimate reflection and enlightenment of human beings, "Human beings still have to strengthen a faith, a belief in love and mutual salvation, so as to meet challenges and tests, and finally survive the disaster." ”
Coming to Chengdu again, Yan An told the Red Star News reporter that Chengdu, as an important town for poetry, not only Chengdu people have special feelings for poetry, but also foreign poets will feel a kind of enthusiasm when they come here, "For example, every time our poets arrive in Chengdu, the media is very positive!" He said half-jokingly, "Thus this also shows that the people who live here have high expectations and love for poetry culture." ”
Yan An said that Chengdu International Poetry Week has continuously held such open international cultural exchange activities in the name of a city, "I think this is at the forefront of many provincial capital cities in China, it is not only the cultural brand of Chengdu in Sichuan Province, but also the cultural brand of China." ”
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