A Study Of Xiao Kaiyu’s Poetic Transformation In The Late 1990s

Xiao Kaiyu,one of the representative poets in the 1990 s.Examining his writing,an important change took place in his poetry creation after he completed Homage to Du Fu in the late 1990 s.This significant change plays a very important role in Xiao Kaiyu’s creative career.It is both a summary of his previous creation and an expectation of his future creation.He turned from expressing emotional personal experience to social research and criticism,and also had many changes in form,style,language and connotation.This paper adopts the method of close text reading to analyze the representative poems of Xiao Kaiyu before and after his transformation in the 1990 s,and observe his essay discussion and life experience,investigate the content details of his transformation,and explore the significance,profound influence and specific value of the transformation on his poetry creationThe first chapter analyzes Xiao Kaiyu’s specific poems before the completion of Homage to Du Fu in order to study his style characteristics in this period.It can be seen from Xiao Kaiyu’s writing before Homage to Du Fu.During that period,his works had an exploratory tendency,with all-encompassing themes,varied techniques and exquisite expressions.It was clear that he was constantly trying to break through and seek for change.In this period his works were full of personal experiences.He wrote about real things that happened,not only personal things,but also things that he experienced as a man in history in terms of social change and development.Xiao Kaiyu’s writing content is full of personal experience and emotions.He expresses his feelings deeply,and his poems are full of his typical personal style.Whether it is the display of his unique imagination,or the immersive description and perceptual judgment of the social phenomena he has observed,You can feel the true feelings of a person who has a lot of feelings.The second chapter analyzes Xiao Kaiyu’s specific poems after the completion of Homage to Du Fu in order to study his style characteristics in this period.First,the appellation "people" with obvious class attributes appeared in his works,which had never appeared in his previous works.The definition of "people" was different from many previous appellations,which made the later poems have a different social style from that of the exploration period.Second,To discuss the specific meaning of "we" in terms of identity,from "I" to "we" is not only the change of appellation,but also the change of position,attitude,Angle and mode.It means that Hiao Kaiyu changed his past too personal attributes and began to think about ordinary people’s lives in a collective attitude.Third,he changed from personal emotional experience of social phenomena to writing rational and objective social observation analysis and criticism.Based on the analysis of the previous two chapters,the third chapter explores the specific content,reasons and significance of Xiao Kaiyu’s transformation.In form,he changed from trying to break through and seeking changes in various ways to the overall style tends to be stable and mature,from showmanship writing to return to simplicity.How he completed the profound transformation from "I" to "we" in psychology,position and attitude."I" is the emotional and full personal experience with obvious personal nature,and "we" is the attitude of representing ordinary people held by Xiao Kaiyu.As well as subtle reasons,including but not limited to region,profession and political perspective,which are of vital importance but not obvious in his creation,these things also influence his transformation.Region influences his poetic style and perspective,occupation is the deep reason for his meticulous dissection of society,and politics runs through the beginning and end of his writing.The conclusion summarizes the content of the whole paper and points out how these characteristics make Xiao Kaiyu become a unique poet who writes social analysis and studies,and also make his poems have a unique sense of realistic beauty and a rational and profound ideological height.