On The Aesthetic Characteristics Of "Cultural Epic" In The New Er

In the 1980s,influenced by the modern tendency of "going back to the past",a group of poets developed a strong interest in traditional culture.They constantly explored the psychological structure of national culture and the complex experience of human existence,and formed the creation trend of "cultural epic".The exploration of "cultural epic" implies the inner spiritual turn of Chinese contemporary poetry,is the development of the aesthetic space of Chinese contemporary poetry,and has distinct characteristics in the construction of poetry theme,image selection,structural features and artistic techniques.As a form of modern epic,"cultural epic" is not only closely related to traditional epic,but also has the typical characteristics of modern poetry,which has the two-way value of "Chinese" and "modern".In terms of theme,poets show different tendencies and attitudes towards traditional culture,often reproducing traditional culture with subjective imagination,and displaying modern spiritual consciousness by integrating personal emotion and national experience.In the selection of images,"cultural epic" goes to the depth of culture,and natural images,humanistic images and character images all contain strong cultural significance.These images not only reflect the collective mental consciousness of the nation,but also reflect the poet’s emotional attitude and psychological needs.At the same time,the structure of "cultural epic" has the characteristics of diversity,the nested integration of multi-level echoes,the dual development of lyric and narrative,and the influx of structural elements of drama laid the foundation for the poetry to contain heavy and complex content.In addition,the poet uses modern artistic skills to process traditional materials,analyzes his own spiritual world at multiple levels through perspective transformation,and criticizes the living situation of modern people with rational irony and irrational grotesqueness.