A Flash Of Thought

Guo Xiaochuan is an important representative poet in the history of Chinese poetry of the present age , who has offered many outstanding poems for the contemporary poetic world. His majority of lyrics are the political lyrics which have received universal affection and social praise in particular because of catering to the time demand, while his narrative poems, although in a small quantity, have received many criticisms and censure, due to violating the request about the system of political discourse integration to a great extent then. But we think the narrative poems have the research value today, because they condense the poet's independent thought and exploration about literary and political issues. However, Guo Xiaochuan is a writer deeply influenced by the Party's ideology and policy after all, so the function and the fetter of the mainstream words can be clearly seen in his narrative poems full of exploration meaning, which enables these poems to become one kind of complex text. In this article the author will unearth the rich and complex ideological connotations of Guo Xiaochuan's lengthy narrative poems on the basis of respect for the historical facts and the text.The article is composed of introduction, textual material ,and conclusion.Introduction part: This part summarizes the full text and proposes the paper viewpoint. It makes the whole summary of the full text, which expounds that he contradictions between being both a soldier and a poet reflect the complexity of idological connotations in Guo Xiaochuan's narrative poems. And this kind of complexity is also his important transcendent performance to a great extent.Textual material: This part takes Guo Xiaochuan's lengthy narrative poems as the text, reveals the complex connotation, and unearths his unique and thought-provoking pondering and life experience. It falls into three chapters to make the elaboration. The first chapter, the fusion and resolution between revolution and love: It has mainly analyzed the fusion between love and revolution and the complex contradictory relations between them manifested in the narrative poems. When faced these contradictions, Guo Xiaochuan, although as a whole obeys the national ideology standard and the revolutionary theme decides the text trend finally, the poet expresses in the description attachment and respect for the individual value and the emotion, thus demonstrates in the text the poetic realm and profound ideas, which actually intentionally or unintentionally disintegrates revolutional suppression of love in the mainstream discourse. The second chapter, intellectual's choice and confusion: What Guo Xiaochuan faces is the social environment, in which the Communist Party of China has been suspicious about intellectuals and tried to transform them for a long time, but as an intellectual, he realizes greatly intellectual's mind and thinking, so he understandingly demonstrates in the poems on the basis of individual experience, and ponders an intellectual's difficult course and the contradictory state of mind joining in the revolution in the struggle age. The third chapter, writing and withstanding of the life tragedy: Guo Xiaochuan actually boldly writes the tragedy work in revolutionary romanticism's creation atmosphere where optimism is advocated. The poet not only describes the tragedy of the petty bourgeoisie intellectuals' vanishing in the narrative poem, but also writes the firm revolutionist's tragedy, which manifest the poet's independent thinking on the Party's work policy and literary policy. But it is these works that put deeply the poet into the ceaseless movement and struggle, and also make himself experience and taste the graver life tragedy.Conclusion part: This part draws a conclusion of the full text. Dozens of years have passed by, we carefully examine Guo Xiaochuan's lengthy narrative poems today and find they still have a great impact on us. These works condense one loyal soldier's affection to the Party and to the revolutionary business,at the same time manifest the unique life experience of one pondering intellectual with conscience .It is the contradiction and the unification between two status that enable Guo Xiaochuan's poetry to have multiple esthetic meaning, and these narrative poems both have been branded the time mark, and have manifested poet's brave exploration spirit. Today we should carefully examine the poet and his work with calm, objective and comprehensive judgment, who has lived through the ups and downs.