"I Am A Poet" Zhang Zao's Poetry World

"I am a poet." It's what Zhang Zao used to say before he died.As a unique poet in the contemporary poetry world,Zhang Zao's poetry is deeply influenced by modern western poetry,while maintaining a strong traditional Chinese characteristics.Taking Zhang Zao's poems as the research object,this paper discusses the resources,content,art and language of Zhang Zao's poems.It mainly adopts the new critical "text reading method",the influence research method under the cross-cultural historical context and the basic comparative research method,and makes a comprehensive perspective and grasp of Zhang Zao's poems.Zhang Zao's creation shows a tendency to pay attention to individual soul,strive to get rid of the tendency of utilitarianism of poetry,and maintain the independence and dignity of the God of poetry.In poetry,metaphorical images are widely used,and the love of surreal and illusory things has brought about changes in forms and techniques of expression.The selection of objective counterparts,the construction of negative subjects and the extreme fascination with language in Zhang Zao's poems all show his learning of Western modernist poetry.At the same time,Zhang Zao devoted himself to the traditional and modern expression of Chinese poetry.He has been trying to restore classical poetry with modern mind in his poems,and to integrate modern and traditional poetry.To rediscover the spiritual charm of traditional poetry and inject modern elements into traditional poetry.Because Zhang Zao has lived abroad for more than twenty years,he expresses his feelings of living abroad in many poems.Years of lonely life and years of lonely overseas life have had a great impact on Zhang Zao's poetry creation.It is with the accompaniment of poetry that Zhang Zao can survive the most difficult period of "aphasia".Poetry has become Zhang Zao's weapon in resisting despair and searching for himself.Poetry is Zhang Zao's painkiller and amulet when he is lonely.It is the fragment of his soul and the monologue of his soul.There are many themes in his poems,such as his understanding of overseas existence,his experience of his own situation and his search.Zhang Zao is a person who knows the techniques of modernist poetry.He attaches great importance to the exploration of techniques in his poetry creation.The use of dramatic techniques and the transformation of multiple persons were fascinated by his use.The whole process of Zhang Zao's poetry creation runs through the dialogue to find listeners to communicate with them and even argue with them.At the same time,defamiliarization narrative techniques are often used by Zhang Zao's poetry skills.Attention to language is the focus of Zhang Zao's poetry creation.Zhang Zao has a clear view of language,which he calls "Yuan Poetry".It requires the poet to "submerge the language itself,turn the difficulties and crises of life and reality into the difficult and dangerous situation of writing itself".The silence of the world is the task of the poet to correctly express this silence.At the same time,Zhang Zao likes the light image in his creation.The language of poetry is light and sweet,showing the characteristics of "light" and "sweet".As a poet who is not very productive and highly demanding of himself,Zhang Zao adheres to the ontology of language,frees poetry from the shackles of instrumentalism of poetry,pays attention to the autonomy and independence of poetry creation,and practices the poetic recognition that poetry is a linguistic landscape.The excavation of individual inner feelings and the advanced language experiment make Zhang Zao create a lot of poems with high aesthetic value.While devoting himself to expressing modernity,he never separates the relationship with tradition,and creatively merges the eastern and western poetic resources into one.This is the unique value of Zhang Zao's poems.