During The Cultural Revolution "two Index Finger" Phenomenon

A "Buried Chinese poet", Shizhi, was rediscovered in the1980s. His importance in the history of contemporary poetry is being recognised. Studying the poems written in Cultural Revolution, some scholars have noticed there existed Two Shizhi, who respectively wrote in the name of the individual and the collective. The political movements and his personalities are the causes of the phenomenon. To figure out Two Shizhi can help us have an overall understanding of Shizhi’s writing and his change of created psychology, meanwhile it can help the next generations have an idea about the Shizhi generation. Furthermore, Two Shizhi respectively represent the main poets of overt and covert poetry at that time, hence, to figure out Two Shizhi phenomenon can also help us understand the complicated literature in Cultural Revolution.Seeing from the sight of macro history and poet’s personal situation, this author try to observe and analysis how Two Shizhi came into being during Cultural Revolution, and what it revealed and affected. The essay refers that, the rise and decay of Red Guards Campaign and the development of educated urban youth being sent to mountainous and rural areas, were external causes to the phenomenon. The education about communism and idealism Shizhi accepted and his personal sensitivity were regarded as the internal causes. The emergence of Two Shizhi was not a sudden event, which had gone through a coexistence in typical lyric mode first, and then split obviously. The existence of Two Shizhi not only reflected his personal spiritual problem, which can be directly proved by his schizophrenia,but also revealed the common spiritual predicament of Chinese contemporary intellectuals. What’s more, it also had great effect on the emergence of misty poetry.