Adrift In Accordance With The Poet

Spirit is regarded as the origin of arts by Gu Cheng, and it is also the main support of one's survival and composition. His achievements in the field of poetry derive from his unique understanding of spiritual self.Gu Cheng is a unique existence in the Chinese Contemporary poetry circle. On the one hand, he exerts himself to establish his own poetry dream; on the other, he practices his dream in reality. Therefore, there is a conflict between his dream and reality in himself. His creation process spirit can be seen as a curve between the ideal and the reality. His mind of poetry composition always changes with the life environment, social background and cultural context. In rural areas, his poetry imagery is about natural world, such as flowers, birds, insects and fish full of fairy tale colors and he also gets freedom and liberation in spirit. Back to the city, with unfamiliar environment and under huge stress, his composition shows irreconcilable conflict between the ideal and reality. In this period, he regards his poems as the survival support, and seeks his ideal kingdom in his poetry. This time he starts his escape from reality. First he comes into his poems, the escape in spirit. Along with the change of social and cultural environment, he deviates from the orbit of main culture steam. In adversity, he still clings to his poem ideal, and finally under the pressure of the actual reality, he begins to persecute the escape behavior and lives in an island until the end of life.His conflict between the ideal and the reality shows his different spiritual selves, that is, natural self, cultural self, anti-culture self and aimless self. Such a multi-sided spiritual self is a real psychological portraiture of his different life stages. This thesis intends to synthetically analyze his composition spiritual self through his poems and the long novel Ying'er. Except introduction and conclusion, there are four chapters, analyzing and expounding his composition features and psychology of four stages, that is, natural self, cultural self, anti-culture self and aimless self respectively for the purpose of reflecting his life and composition.