On The Way Back Home

Yu Jian is a representative poet and poetry theorist, who has experienced the powerful crash by the society change from politics- focused to economy-focused in late 1980s. His poetry expresses strong consciousness of going back home. Such as"Nature is the hometown", which firstly shows his appreciation of earth, land, hill, river, ect nature scene. Secondly is his poetry writing of Yun Nan custom. He is eager to express the poetic flavor and home-in feeling in order to melt the blatancy and disturbance in life. Thirdly, he describes the daily life ect life spot, and think that this is the true homeland of mankind. Human being should envisage the reality of home and settle down in the trivialness, pettiness and meaningless process, which can achieve backing-home soul in order to relieve the perplexed and alarmed heart.In Yu Jian's opinion, as the herald of Zeitgeist, poet should clearly recognize"What is the home of mankind, what is the home of poetry", and point out how to deal with the relationship between language and poetry in order to reflect the truth of existence. Yu Jian thinks that language declines excessive culture metaphor, the writing of poetry should be described one's life experience with oral language and be returned to the truth, per se. The series shows that his questioning and thinking about eager chasing the noumenon consciousness of petry, which marks that Yu Jian is searching for the new path for the poetry vitality of the decade of the 1990s. Under the influence of era historical factor and foreign theory, Yu Jian's series poetics theory has experienced the process of taking place and generating, consequentially there must be the value of the creation and poetics directed defect, which brings the significance and moral that is worth to continue utilization and modification, to Parnassus change, poetry creation and poetry theory. It is propitious to dig this type of backing home writer who walking out of mistaken ideas and being suffered the deep spiritual predicament when they deal with modern civilization and traditional civilization, science and technology rationality and value rationality if studying the spiritual trait of backing home in Yu Jian's Poetics. It is also propitious for modern writer to breakthrough chronically mechanical imitation the duality thinking structure of the conflict of this shore and the other shore of the West. It makes more profound and more practical significance in comprehending and expanding the worldwide seeking superorganic meaning of"Home".Therefore, in this pluralism era, it gives significant edification to our contemporary poetics framework if we study the method of Yu Jian, as a poet, structuring poetics, creating poetry and developing his poetry thought.