| As a concentrated display of the creative achievements of the Chinese Poetry Association,The Poetry Series of The Chinese Poetry Association contains the poetry works and some translated poems of some members before and after the Anti-Japanese War,with rich themes,distinctive features,and many explorations and attempts in art.Not only made a certain contribution to the new poetry at that time,but also some of the poems still have vitality so far.The Chinese Poetry Association originated from the Saturn pen society,which was founded in Nanjing in 1934.They published new poems on the platform of Shifan,which had a certain influence on the poetry circle.After 1937,the people lived in the rear area and established the Poetry Front in Changsha to publicize the war of resistance against Japan in line with the situation.For the purpose of reversing the atmosphere of poetry,the China Poetry Association was established following the Poetry Front Association,with the editing and publication of Chinese Poetry Art and The Poetry Series of The Chinese Poetry Association as its main activities.Chinese Poetry Art has a wide range of authors,and its published works can be noted in terms of poetry,translation or poetic theory,and its influence in the rear should not be underestimated.With the closure of the publication of Chinese Poetry Art,the association gradually stopped its activities.Xu Zhongnian,the editor-in-chief of The Poetry Series of The Chinese Poetry Association,has a great influence on the editing and publishing of this series of books.Xu Zhongnian has the outlook on life of "struggle" and the thought of "academic saving the nation".The realistic basis of the former comes from his thinking about the national character.The latter leads his attention to the situation of Chinese education.Xu Zhongnian intervened in social life through literary and editorial activities.Although his literary ideas are mixed,they can be followed.The editorial ideas clearly show a rational and fair way of editing,editorial values that emphasize realistic responsibility and responsibility,as well as clear author consciousness and reader consciousness.Under the influence of the editor-in-chief of the series and the environment of the times,The Poetry Series of The Chinese Poetry Association presents the characteristics of "the authors of the series are not limited to the community" and "mainly relying on the Kuomintang government-run publishing institutions",and "the publishing process is difficult and slow".Love,Anti-Japanese War and nostalgia are the three major poetic themes in The Poetry Series of The Chinese Poetry Association.The love poems in the series are as delicate as Microwave Words,as hot and romantic as Harvest Period,or as simple and transparent as Carols of Stars,showing the sincere and rich emotional pulse of the individual soul.With its description of war scenes,praise of light and description of suffering,Anti-Japanese War poems have become the imprint of history and constitute an indelible part of our national memory.Nostalgia poems either choose unique images to be exquisite narration,or connect "hometown" with "country" to enhance the reality of poetry,all of which give people emotional impact and tremor.Neoclassicism,symbolism and popularization are the three major poetic characteristics of The Poetry Series of The Chinese Poetry Association.Taking 1937 as the boundary,the poems in the series can be divided into one before and one after two stages.The characteristic of poetry art of "neoclassicism" and "symbolism" is mainly concentrated in the previous period,which is the exploration of poetry art in the study of Chinese new poetry entering the world poetry circle,while the poetry art characteristic of "popularization" is mainly reflected in the latter period.it is the creative practice that the series writers devote themselves to the torrent of the times in order to fulfill the mission of the Anti-Japanese War. |