"Today!" And The Rising Of Obscure Poetry

As the most durable topic of Contemporary Chinese Literature, Obscure Poetry presented already 30 years. But in the research, not yet has a systematic monograph on the history of Obscure Poetry until now. What most difficult to solve is the question about the rising of Obscure Poetry. This dissertation bases on the rich firsthand information, adopts the literary style study and the sociology theory angle of view, and then makes thorough analysis of the rising of Obscure Poetry.Obscure Poetry's occurrence research must take "TODAY!" as a starting point. "TODAY!" poetry experienced three historical periods and three poetic genres. "TODAY!" poetry absorbed chinese and foreign thoughts and artistic resources which impelled "TODAY!" poets to construct multiple individual consciousness and enlightened them to experiment modernistic art forms.When "TODAY!" poetry moved toward the public space, facing the different publication contexts, it experienced three reconstructions at least. Finally it was integrated into the "Whole" construction of state ideology, but the self of socialism-humanitarianism, the individual will to doubt and seek with suffering, and the metaphorical technique, became the general core of Obscure Poetry. The rising of Obscure Poetry was from the dialogue and dispute between "Individual" consciousness and "Whole" ideology in the new historical environment, also from the dissension between guarding and breaking through the pattern of poem nature. In Obscure Poetry establishment's process, the social psychology striving for truth and change were really the basic premise, the rising of folk strength and the impulsion of resetting poetic field's pattern were the internal impetus, and the crevasse in the poetic field caused by contending for power and profit in the official field offered an emergence channel for Obscure Poetry. At the same time, Obscure Poetry expedited the new social words that involved the academic strength, which by the new explanation frame, depending upon the logical concept, pulled down "the authority words" system's esthetical validity. The academy and the folk formed an alliance with independent comparatively criticism space, the folk and the university readers widely and lastingly disseminated Obscure Poetry, and the official, the academy, the folk, the commercial market and the international strength made Obscure Poetry the classical brand, thus replaced whole poetry words system, changed the background of contemporary chinese poetry.