Characteristics of Misty Poetry

Misty poetry takes the inner spiritual world as the main object of expression, adopts the artistic strategy and way of overall image symbolization and gradual intention inspiration to conceal the feelings, thus making the text of the poem between expressing itself and hiding itself, presenting some characteristics such as vague and hazy poetic situation, vague and implicit poetic meaning, rich in allegory, and multi-interpretation of multiple meanings of the theme, etc.

Misty poetry focuses on self-expression.

Misty poetry focuses on self-expression. The reason why it gives people the feeling of "newness" is because of the emergence of the "self" which is characterized by modern youth. Artistically, hazy poetry began to pay attention to the poetic qualities of the Chinese language, paying attention to conciseness, innuendo, innuendo, and the management of imagery. Even rational thinking and the communication of ideas can be accomplished through the operation of imagery.

Expanded Information

The changes in the ideological content and artistic methods of Misty Poetry have had a strong impact on Chinese poetic traditions and habits of appreciation, and have given rise to two very different views. The term "hazy poetry" was initially slightly derogatory, and its popularity in contemporary poetry can be traced back to the article "The Dull Misty" by Zhang Ming, published in Poetry Magazine No. 8 in 1980.

The essay was triggered by a poem, "Autumn," by the veteran poet Du Yunsiep, which appeared in Poetry Magazine, No. 1, 1980: "Even the pigeon whistles sound ripe tones, / Past, that summer of noisy showers / No longer think of that grim sultry ordeal, / Recollections of the details of a dangerous game."

In Zhang Ming's opinion, the language of this poem makes people feel rare and awkward, and creates a disorder in one's thinking. He then cited the young poet Li Xiaoyu's "Night" as an example, and thought that this kind of poem was obscure and strange, and told people to read it as if they didn't understand it, or half-understood it, or even didn't understand it at all, and couldn't make sense of it, which is really exasperating, and when he was so exasperated, he wrote this article.

In order to avoid the suspicion of brutality, he will be such poetic style is named "hazy style". From then on, "hazy poetry", a slightly derogatory term, became the generalized name for the new wave of poems, and a heated polemic was launched around "hazy poetry".

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