The reason why Yang Jiezhi's lectures are so popular at Tsinghua University is not just because he is a professor at Tsinghua University and an honorary president of Tsinghua University.

It's as if the name of Yang Jiezhi's Poetry Altar Mountain Range is not just a joke, and his "Collection of Poems on Life Perceptions" is known as one of the highest-level works of modern Chinese poetry.

Yang Jiezhi straightened the bow tie on his chest, propped his hands on the podium, leaned forward, and said: "I am under a lot of pressure in this lecture, and the last time I had this kind of pressure was when I gave a lecture at Yale University abroad. ”

Yale University, as one of the top universities abroad, and Yang Jiezhi is a Chinese person to give a speech is indeed normal, but the venue of today's speech is Tsinghua University, Yang Jiezhi's home field, and there is not even a single observer, what is the tension in this situation? The students felt incomprehensible.

They all listened to Yang Jiezhi's words quietly, only to see Yang Jiezhi chuckling: "It is natural to put the knowledge of modern poetry under pressure in front of Su Xiaoyou, I can't say anything about Su Xiaoyou, we confirm each other." ”

There are definitely a lot of people with the surname Su in this classroom, but those who can be called Professor Yang Jiezhi's little friend, it is estimated that only the one sitting in the front row of the entire classroom has such qualifications.

The students present were very surprised by Yang Jiezhi's words just now, and there was nothing surprising about this title. Because the news reported that the relationship between Yang Jiezhi and Su Shichen is good, it can be seen from Yang Jiezhi's strong support for Su Shichen when "Ghost Blows the Lamp" was published. They were surprised because of the words behind Yang Jie.

What is mutual corroboration? Mutual corroboration must be on the basis of an equal level in order to be able to meet the meaning of the word. Needless to say, Yang Jiezhi's height in the field of poetry. But what is the situation of Su Shichen?

Su Shichen's achievements in the field of fiction are naturally not to say, claiming to be a man who can control any type of fiction. I haven't heard of Su Shichen writing poems. Of course, it is even more impossible for this to be a compliment, according to Yang Jiezhi's status, there is no need for him to compliment Su Shichen.

"Where is Professor Yang, you are a teacher in terms of poetry, and those of us who are students can only ask for advice with an open mind." As a courtesy, Su Shichen got up first. Then he bowed slightly.

"Okay, now I'm going to talk about the length of modern poetry." Yang Jiezhi began to lecture, "Modern poetry is detached from ancient poetry and gentleness. The characteristics of grief but not complaining, more freedom. ”

"And the most direct manifestation of this freedom is in the length of the poetry collection, modern poems can be expressions of feelings or narratives, and the length of the poetry collection also exceeds the length of ancient poems."

"There must be a lot of students who want to ask here. There are also many long poems in ancient poetry. It's like Li Bai's "Shu Huai Presents Jiang Xiawei Taishou Liangzai" is a thousand-word long poem, and as the longest lyric poem in ancient China, "Lisao", the full text is nearly 2,500 words. ”

Such long poems are rare in ancient poems, but there are many in modern poems, and there are even more words, just like our Tibetan "Biography of King Gesar" in China, with more than one million words and more than 7,000 lines. This genre is a special epic in modern poetry, such as the Indian epic "Mahabharata", which is as much as 5 million words. This is the freedom of the length of the poetry collection. ”

"Of course, I'm not saying that modern poetry is better than ancient poetry, ancient poetry is the quintessence of our China, maybe I will encounter the Black Tide if I say this, compared with ancient poetry, modern poetry also has shortcomings." Yang Jiezhi's voice turned back, and he wrote the word 'streamline' on the blackboard with chalk.

"Broken bamboo, continued bamboo; Flying earth, chasing the earth. A total of eight words, from the "Song of Playing Song" in "Wu Yue Spring and Autumn", if I remember correctly, this should be the shortest ancient poem, with just eight words to express the scene of hunting. ”

"The ancients spoke in classical Chinese, which was very concise, but ancient poetry summarized classical Chinese, so in terms of simplicity of words, modern poetry is definitely inferior to ancient poetry."

What Yang Jiezhi said is indeed true, just like Li Bai's most well-known "Silent Night Thoughts" in just 20 words, it depicts the scene of the poet looking up at the moon in the sky in the room alone, missing his hometown. But if this is taken to modern poetry, "Under the Full Moon" in the afterglow, the same homesickness under the moon, is expressed in one or two hundred words.

Of course, "Silent Night Thoughts" and "Under the Full Moon" cannot be compared together in terms of ideology, but it can be seen at a glance from the simplicity of language.

The shortest ancient poem, eight words, the most famous short poem in modern poetry, Gu Cheng's "Generation" does not count punctuation nineteen words, Ezra. Pound's "On a Subway Station in Paris" is twenty-two words, and these short poems seem a little long compared to "Playing Songs".

Yang Jiezhi made a concluding remark: "In terms of subject matter, modern poems are more casual, so they can be written longer, while ancient poems are more concise. A few days ago, I heard that there was a huge controversy on the Internet about whether ancient poetry is better or modern poetry, and people from all walks of life have participated in it to express their opinions, which is a good thing. ”

Yang Jiezhi's lecture caused many students to discuss: "It has always been said on the Internet that modern poetry is better here and there than ancient poetry, but modern poetry is not as concise as ancient poetry no matter how it is written." "Yes, Professor Yang summed it up so well." ……

Li Dongfang listened very carefully, and recorded all the things she thought were important in the notebook, and the thick notebook was blank at this time. Most of Su Shichen's attention was on Li Dongfang's body, and with Li Dongfang's current face, he was really worried that she would suddenly fall.

"Student Su, do you have any other opinions, or do you have anything to refute?" Privately called Su Xiaoyou, but when the class started, the title should be more formal.

Yang Jiezhi naturally would not open his mouth for no reason, and the relationship with Su Shichen was even more unlikely to be an outlet to make things difficult for him. Instead, he saw that Su Shichen's eyebrows were slightly raised, and the corners of his mouth were upturned, which clearly meant that he had different opinions.

"I don't have any doubts about Professor Yang's point. Modern poetry and ancient poetry do have their own advantages, but I just heard a classmate say that modern poetry cannot be simplified like ancient poetry anyway, this statement is not quite right, if you want to streamline, it can be done, even simpler than what Professor Yang just said about "playing songs". As soon as Su Shichen spoke, he attracted the attention of many people in the classroom.

The whole poem of "Playing Song" is only eight words, which is less than "Playing Song"? And the subject matter has to be modern poetry. Is this possible?

"Nasu, please show it to us in the classroom." Yang Jiezhi didn't look like a professor at all, and directly began to coax, in fact, if he thought that Su Shichen agreed to Yang Jiezhi to write a poetry collection. I don't know how long it's been delayed, and there is no news yet, so it's understandable that Yang Jiezhi is doing this.

"In modern poetry, the content of the poem can be reduced to at least one word." Su Shichen made an unbelievable remark.

A one-word modern poem? At least in the minds of all the students in the classroom. There is no such poem.

The seats in this classroom are connected by two seats. It's like a long time ago, you had to use chalk to draw a 38 line in the middle of a table, divided into three rows, and the middle row is connected by two tables, that is, four people can sit. Su Shichen, Li Dongfang, Zhang Tingting, and a classmate who didn't know each other sat together.

Zhang Tingting touched Li Dongfang with her elbow, looked at Su Shichen from the side and asked in a low voice, "Dongdong, is Su Shichen's brain really fine?" Where is a poem with one word? ”

Su Shichen's location is very good, first of all, he is at the forefront of the classroom. And he was still in the middle, so almost all the eyes of his classmates looked at him. It's a bit of a crowd of people.

It's a pity that this gaze is not the kind of worship, but the kind of gaze with suspicion.

"Then I'll be ugly, the title of this poem is called "Life", and the content of this poem ......" Su Shichen deliberately pulled a big long note, "net." ”

Putting Su Shichen's words together, it is-

Life

Net.

That's probably it, but this state of not matching the preface with the afterword is a poem?

When you write a poem, at least others have to admit that you are a poem, right, or write a title, and then you will say that it is a poem, who agrees with it except for the author himself? Su Shichen: This is almost the same.

Many people had such a question in their hearts, and then there was a whispered discussion, "This is also counted?" "It can't be said casually, right?" "I don't understand!" "If that's poetry, I could write several poems a day!" ……

It was at this time that Professor Yang Jiezhi said with appreciation: "Life is a net, the king of affection, friendship, hatred, etc., are inextricably linked. No matter how people live a lifetime, they can't escape a net, and no one can get out of such a state of life. Wonderful! ”

Now, the doubts are gone, and many times, you don't know the meaning, but under the praise of others, you suddenly realize that it is so powerful, and you also start to tout. This kind of disposition to follow the trend is something that everyone has, plus Yang Jiezhi, who has a very high achievement in the field of poetry, is touted even more by everyone.

The lecture continued, and now Su Shichen was much more low-key, drooping his face, and did not change his expression, I have to say that Professor Yang's level is very high, and the whole class is full of fun.

The bell rang at the end of class, "That's all for today, this class is very enjoyable, thank you for your cooperation." Yang Jiezhi packed up all the things in the lecture, "Su Xiaoyou, come to my office when you have time." ”

“haode。” Su Shichen nodded.

"Hey, I didn't expect you to write poetry?" Zhang Tingting said a lot, "It's still this kind of very difficult one-word poem." ”

In the past, Su Shichen read novels, and for some of the characters in the novel, he thought that the author wrote them to make up the number of words, but now he understands that there will be no shortage of such buns in life, and it will be unreal without such characters.

Su Shichen shook his head and didn't speak, this one-word poem is not Su Shichen's nonsense, but a poem written by Beidao, a representative of hazy poetry, whose content is shorter than the title, and the shortest poem in the whole Shijie.

"What's wrong with you, squad leader?" Su Shichen's expression changed, and he suddenly shouted.

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