Staying On The Ground Of Writing Poetry Guolusheng

Guolusheng, who was an educated youth poet star in last1970s to1980s, is gradually fading out people’s perspective now, but when welook back the unnormal years in Chinese Cultural Revolution stood in ahistory of thought or a history of literature angle, it’s impossible to evadethe view of a persisitent martyr’s back. Guolusheng had lots ofcharacteristics which not only went against that crazy years but also wereadored by many youths, he also had some stubborn conservations andlimitations produced in that years as well as the crazy secret which no onecan solve......Today we clear up the fog of confusion, standing in anrelatively objective angle, paying attention to a complete Guolusheng, wemay find something different.Guolusheng had both revolutionary ideas and classic feelingsbecause he was affacted by the social condition at that time andtraditional culture, and he drew nutrition from banned books in CulturalRevolution’s cultural desert and got advices from modern poetsGuoxiaochuan and Hejingzhi, so he inherited May fouth new poery a lotand read many western humanism and democratic thought works, andgrasp thoroughly, wrote ture nature, coused wide resonances among theyouths in that years and initiated the following Misty Poetry. However, asa poet who had paid much more attention to his inner fellings,Guolusheng was involved in political vortex and irreconcilable heart contradiction inevitably, which ultimately coused his schizophrenia. Wecould find his contradictory heart by analysising his poems. To be aneducated youth in Chinese Cultural Revolution, he had inevitable thoughtlimitation, but it can’t prohibit him to be the spokesperson of educatedyouth and the flag-bearer of leading ideological liberation under thespecial political circumstance. The meaning of thinking enlightenment inhis poems had laid him the irreplaceable place in the history of thoughtand the history of literature.