Chapter subtitle: Squeak - Squeak - Squeak!

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"Modern Chinese literature began with the May Fourth New Culture Movement, which can be said to be a linguistic revolution in opposition to classical Chinese and advocating vernacular writing.

This linguistic revolution is inextricably linked to the overall development of modern Chinese literature and has a profound impact on the entire modern literature.

In the vernacular literary movement, one after another intellectuals emerged to explore this field. They have made unremitting research and exploration in terms of language, prosody, and expression methods.

As a representative of the New Culture Movement, Yuan Yanqian has an irreplaceable and even unique important position in the history of modern Chinese literature and poetry. The unique artistic charm and pioneering creative tendencies of his poems have undoubtedly impressed many readers, and can be said to be a rare treasure in modern Chinese literature.

Yuan Yanqian is also a poet with great linguistic talent, not only writing poetry in Chinese, but also using major languages around the world, such as English, Japanese, French, and German. Even Hindi to write. Therefore, he is also one of the leaders of modern poetry in the twentieth century.

His friend T.S. Eliot commented that his talent has nowhere to be placed.

His friend Xu Zhimo said, "I wrote poetry because of two people, one is Yuan and the other is Lin."

But that "Lin" said that Yuan Yanqian not only taught her to compose poetry, but also taught her to be a human being......

Yes, she was his first female disciple, and she was jokingly called "Senior Sister Yuanmen" at the time.

Yuan Yanqian herself once mentioned in a lecture: Poetry is a faint whisper from the depths of the poet's heart.

This sentence fully shows Yuan Yanqian's concept of poetics, poetry is the reproduction of the true thoughts in the heart; Poetry is the product of emotional saturation; Poetry should be created freely, without constraints, without re-embellishment.

Moreover, Yuan Yanqian established his own poetic style very early, and his creative concept can be glimpsed in the "Old Three Articles" published as early as 1921.

At that time, he was suffering from acute tuberculosis, and he was probably the shortest incubation patient in history, and his life hung by a thread. In the midst of such a desperate situation, he began to write poetry after a tenacious struggle against his illness.

The most surprising thing is that the language he first used was not his native Chinese and English, which he had long been proficient in, but the Japanese he had just learned, which was "Not Afraid of Wind and Rain", which would later become popular throughout Japan.

To describe Yuan Yanqi's "Not Afraid of Wind and Rain" in one word, that is-quality.

Probably because he is a beginner, the whole poem is as simple as a farmer in the countryside, but it has the power to touch people's hearts.

It is no wonder that Mori Ouwai, one of Japan's three great writers, was particularly fond of this poem and praised Yuan Yanqian as "the white lotte of the twentieth century".

At the end of 1921, when he learned that Mr. Yuan had returned to Shanghai, he was overjoyed and wanted to visit China, but unfortunately he died of illness in early 1922. (Author's note: The other two are Natsume Soseki and Akutagawa Ryunosuke.) ）

Later, when Yuan Yanqian visited Japan, he also went to the cemetery outside Moriou and burned his handwritten "Not Afraid of Wind and Rain" to him.

The so-called poetry does not emphasize the text, which is what we are talking about.

Summing up his "I Love This Land" in one word, that is-Zhi.

In this poem, you can feel the patriotism in the author's heart at first reading, as well as the pathos of the author's ambition at that time.

It is no wonder that Mr. Lu Xun, who is as famous as Mr. Hongji, is particularly fond of this poem, and also said, "The literati of our generation are unfortunate because of Hongji." ”

When Mr. Lu Xun died in 1936, Yuan Yanqian happened to be out of China. When he learned of the bad news, he burned "I Love This Land" written by himself to him.

The so-called poetry is the voice of the heart, which is this kind of poetry.

To describe his "I Died of Handsomeness", that is-know.

In fact, this poem is the most typical poetic work of intellectuals.

Unlike "Not Afraid of Wind and Rain", this poem requires a certain amount of ability to appreciate the beauty of it; It is also different from "I Love This Land", this poem requires careful consideration to understand what the author is saying.

"I Died of Handsomeness" uses concise format and humorous language to expound rich ideas and profound philosophies.

If you can read this poem, then you will know that the author is a great poet and has a great soul.

As the famous English poet William Butler Yeats said, Yuan Yanqian is a lucky person with an incomparable sensitivity and finishing touch given by God.

In 1939, when Yeats died, Yuan Yanqian was unable to attend the funeral in London because he was listed as persona non grata by the British government, so he had to burn his handwritten "I Died Handsome" to him.

The so-called poetry is bestowed, and this is what we are talking about.

I have to say that Yuan Yanxian is a very witty literary person, "I Died of Handsomeness" was translated into Chinese by himself, and the name is "Handsome Died".

There is also an anecdote about this poem, after it was published, some people questioned that Yuan Yanqian was plagiarized from Emily Dickinson's "I Died of Beauty", except that the two poems are exactly the same except that Beauty is changed to Handse.

But Yuan swore she had never seen Ms. Dickinson's original work. He said that when he was seriously ill and unconscious, he always heard a lady in his ear reciting this poem, so he recorded it.

This became a famous paranormal event. Some paranormal experts claim that Yuan Yanqian possessed the soul of a poet, which attracted Ms. Dickinson's soul of a poet.

At that time, other literary scholars also defended Yuan Yanqi, saying that a genius poet like him did not need to plagiarize others at all. It is possible that he overheard someone reading this poem and remembered it in his mind.

Later, in order to express her apology, Yuan Yanqian funded the publication of Dickinson's complete poetry and gave all royalties to Dickinson's family.

However, it should be pointed out that Yuan Yanqian does not attach much importance to pure poetry creation, and he prefers to write songs more than poetry. He once said that a poem that cannot be sung is a poem "song".

In this regard, he and his friend Xu Zhimo have a common language, and the Crescent School to which the latter belongs is dissatisfied with the style of "free poets" who ignore poetry after the May Fourth Movement, and advocates new rhythmic poetry.

But in the spring of 1927, when Xu Zhimo invited him, who was also in Shanghai, to join the Crescent faction, he decisively refused. (Author's note: The Crescent Sect was first born in the spring of 1926, when it was based on the Imperial Capital's "Morning Post Supplement", and in the spring of 1927, the Crescent Sect moved to the Magic Capital.) ）

The reason for refusal was that he was about to do a lot of funerals, and he didn't have the time to write poetry.

As for whose funeral he was going to do, there are detailed records in history.

Later, someone asked him about the poetry genre, and Yuan Yanqian said that if he really belonged to a certain faction, it would be the old school.

Because one of the common pseudonyms used by which he published his poems was the Old Dominator......"

——Excerpt from "On the Beauty of Yuan Yanqi's Poetry and Its Influence on the Vernacular Literary Movement"

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Sorry, another chapter of "water".

Murong wants to defend himself, this broken book is originally a brain hole, and the brain hole is as important as the plot.

But I think you're all pretty sick, so I don't need to explain too much.