A Study Of Voice In Zhang Zao's Poems

Zhang Zao is a very important poet since the new era,and is one of the famous "Five Princes of Bashu".Voice is an important starting point in his poetry creation.His works have always been praised for their precise and flexible control of the voice of poetry.This paper probes into the voice in Zhang Zao's poems from three levels:the formal arrangement of voice,the emotional appeal transmission of voice,the construction of voice and the generation of dialogism,trying to describe the characteristics of the voice in his poems at different levels.Zhang Zao usually arranges the voice form of his poems by rhyming and rhythm control techniques.The rhymes in his poems are flexible and clever.In the rhyming style,he usually uses cross rhyme and remote rhyming which correspond to each other from afar.He also modifies the conventional "rhyming" and uses "interline rhyming" or "lean rhyming".By rhyming,Zhang Zao often highlights the vowels with small pronunciation openings,such as the "n","m" and "ng",to simulate the slender,graceful,long and soothing feeling,so as to match the semantic expression or form the tension of confrontation with semantics.In addition,he controls the rhythm through punctuation,the use of spaces,the arrangement of written arrangement forms such as line length and cross-line and voice repetition,and echoes the corresponding semantic expression of poetry with different rhythms.Through the precise control of rhythm,poetry can achieve a subtle balance in sound by changing the rhythm with semantic changes and even adjusting the most subtle rhythm of each word.Zhang Zao not only attaches great importance to the arrangement of sound and pronunciation forms,but also pays great attention to the creation of intonation to convey specific emotional appeal.Before going abroad,the tone of his poems was gentle and sweet.The gentle and sweet emotional tone conveyed by the tone can be regarded as a kind of value evaluation of praise.This evaluation is formed from his insight into the beautiful and subtle details of daily life,which is combined with his judgment and recognition of traditional Chinese culture in his expression,which implies a defense to the real political discourse order.After going abroad,Zhang Zao fell into a lonely situation that no one appreciated.His tone changed from sweet and gentle to negative and depressed.Although the sweetness and gentleness in the early intonation continued in some poems,it finally showed gloomy sound effect in the mixture with depressed and heavy sounds.The depression and negativity presented inthe tone of the poem are also presented in the form of anxiety of cultural identity.In the poems of the following years,Zhang Zao eliminated the anxiety of cultural identity by emphasizing the cultural differences between the East and the West and confirming cultural identity in revenge.The voice of the poem also realized the change from a negative tone to a confident tone.Through the intentional creation of sound,some of Zhang Zao's poems have formed what Bakhtin called "mini-dialogue".Before going abroad,Zhang Zao formed a dialogue mode of "pouring out" through the creation of voices such as questioning,pleading and calling,making the dialogue face an anonymous person who is close but appears distant.This anonymous person is actually a personified image of cultural tradition.After going abroad,the objects of dialogue have become specific and rich,and the ways of dialogue have also become more numerous,either exhorting oneself to take confidence in life with earnest voices or urging people to reflect on modern life and face up to the relationship between man and nature with preaching voices.The early "pouring out" dialogue has been continued in the poem Kafka to Phyllis,but the "pouring out" has changed at this time.The voice reflects the psychological contradictions and entanglements of the real situation after the poet went abroad in the alternation of depression and confidence-building.Compared with the early posturing talk,it is sincere and has special tension.Zhang Zao's poems create harmonious and subtle aural effects through flexible phonetic arrangements.They contain unique emotional appeal in tone,convey his living situation and poetic ideas through empirical vocalization,and create dialogism to generate poems through concrete voices,thus absorbing reality and renewing himself.The sound is also organically linked with the form and skill of poetry and the poet's emotion and concept,thus becoming the starting point of Zhang Zao's poetry creation.