The Formation And Development Of Jilin University Poets Group

Jilin University Poets Group is a highly influential group which can not be underestimated in the history of Chinese contemporary poetry development. Jilin University, which has been seventy years, has created numbers of campus poets and has formed a prosperous artistic tradition. They contributed many excellent poems and cutting-edge poetry theory that promoted the development of Chinese contemporary poetic art.Jilin University Poets Group refers to the poets who studied or worked in Jilin University and published numerous poems and poetry from the beginning(1946) of Jilin University to date. It doesn’t include the one who had little poems and no poetry theory published.The history of Jilin University Poets Group can be divided into three stages according to time. The first stage is from the beginning of Jilin University to the end of Cultural Revolution. This period is the generation of Jilin University poets group. Gong Mu, Lu Ping, Huang Huai and Wu Kaijin is the representative figures during the period. They did not only provide rich theoretical knowledge of poetry for the later poets of Jilin University but also set a good example for them. The second stage is from the end of Cultural Revolution to the early 1990 s.This stage is the most prosperous and thrive period that emerged many famous “new time” poets. During this period, the poets group rised rapidly. Based on the strong faculty, open style of study, rigorous scholarship in Jilin University,a lot of poets such as Xu Jingya, Wang Xiaoni, Su Liming, Bao Linxuan were well known as excellent poets during that period. The third stage is from the early 1990 s to date. The Poets Group developed steady during this period. At this stage, the group of Jilin University poets are not only the active ones who belong to the second stage but also the ones like Zhou Qingmin, Yuan Sanyang known as young poets and so on. During this period, Jilin University student poets poetry style come to be diversified and poetic techniques varied that enriched the poetry contents and artistic expressions of Jilin University poets group greatly.Formation and Development of Jilin University poets group is inseparable from the easy and free academic environment, deep background and strong faculty which is also an important guarantee for the future development and expansion of Jilin University poets group. Of course, consistent with the Chinese poetry writing situation, Jilin University poets group is in a hard time in resent years.