Line To The Water To The Poor Sitting Watching Clouds

Zhai Yongming is the most important representative of contemporary female poetry, in her creative process of over 20 years, the styles and patterns of her poems have been changing unceasingly. However,female consciousness is the major theme which she reveals naturally in all her poems. In the eighties of last century, Zhai Yongming, in the way of soliloquy, passionately expressed all sorts of pain and agony that all the women suffered in the patriarchal society, emphasized the miserable condition through the distorted relationships between mother and daughter in order to construct a"dark"world in which the women are saved. By the 1990s, Zhai Yongming lessened gradually the utterly opposite relationship between man and woman, began to probe a variety of women'destinies in the poet's viewpoint, ancient and modern , Chinese and foreign, she made use of their unfortunately experiences as the content of her poems for the purpose of obtaining the artistic perfection. After 1998, having experienced all kinds of arduous explorations, Zhai Yongming viewed the worldly ordinary women in a mature and relax state of mind eventually , she gave voice to the women's sufferings , bepuzzlement as well as pursuit, stressed the same theme of"love"in her three stages, conveyed the particular changes in her thought. From these aspects , we can find out that in the course of her writing of more than 20 years the content of her poetry is widened constantly, the skills of her poetry are improved gradually, female consciousness is developed constantly too, and finally had a achievement of maturity and consummation.