Poetry
Poetry is the noblest and most perfect art.
——Nikolay Gavrilovich Chernyshevsky
Poetry is great, poetry is the most stimulating one's creativity and imagination. Poetry and artistic creation are interlinked. Poets put their emotions in poetry, while artists put their emotions in their creation. Poets are like artists, most are romantic, emotional, and lyrical.
Poets write something in the form of poetry when they feel something. Then, the same is true of artistic creation. When artists create a work, they want to create such a work when they are touched by the background and context behind the work. The pictures that appear in the poems are sometimes imaginative and sometimes realistic. Sometimes the picture depicted in the poem can be expressed on the canvas in the way of painting.
Next, I share the poems of two contemporary Chinese poets that I admire very much. Their poetry is romantic realism, which also has a great influence on my artistic creation. For example, the unclear parts in my painting, like the vague expressions in their poems leave viewers room for imagination.
Hai Zi (1964-1989), a contemporary young poet in China. Haizi grew up in the countryside. In 1979, when he was 15 years old, he was admitted to the Law Department of Peking University. In 1982, he began to write poetry during the university period. After graduating from Peking University in 1983, he was assigned to work in the Philosophy Teaching and Research Office of China University of Political Science and Law in Beijing. On March 26, 1989, he committed suicide by lying on the rail near Shanhaiguan, at the age of 25.
Facing the Sea With Spring Blossoms
From tomorrow on,I will be a happy man.
Grooming,chopping and traveling all over the world.
From tomorrow on,I will care foodstuff and vegetable.
Living in a house towards the sea, with spring blossoms.
From tomorrow on,write to each of my dear ones.
Telling them of my happiness.
What the lightening of happiness has told me.
I will spread it to each of them.
Give a warm name for every river and every mountain.
Strangers,I will also wish you happy.
May you have a brilliant future!
May you lovers eventually become spouses!
May you enjoy happiness in this earthly world!
I only wish to face the sea, with spring blossoms.
Gu Cheng, An important representative poet of the Chinese Misty Poetry School, he is known as a contemporary "spiritual romantic" poet. Gu Cheng has high attainments in new poems, old style poems and narration story poems. The line "Dark night gave me black eyes / I use it to find light" in his "Generation" has become a classic line in Chinese new poetry.
SHOUTING QUESTIONS TO THE UNIVERSE
– letter sent to his mother, after she had been
demoted to do manual labor in the countryside.
Poem written when he was 12 years old.
The Milky Way slowly flows through the sky
pitch black space without the slightest sound
the sky filled with eye-blinking stars
as if looking for someone to relate to,
to inquire about.
Oh Altair,
the cowherd, sings his tragic song
and Vega, the weaving girl’s tears gatherinto a river.
I want to shout to the universe
mother, mother, why won’t she return?
why?
Oh moonlight
mounted like a mirror against the night
moving little by little, stopping for a time, then moving again.
And now it seems I can see the shape of her shadow as if in that mirror
sending me letters in its light.
Translated by Ryan Adams, July 31, 2013
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