ISSN : 1229-9618(Print)
ISSN : 2671-7506(Online)
ISSN : 2671-7506(Online)
Chinese Studies Vol.55 pp.111-130
DOI : https://doi.org/10.14378/KACS.2016.55.55.7
DOI : https://doi.org/10.14378/KACS.2016.55.55.7
Linguistic Aesthetics Come to Flower in the Wasteland : A Study of Hukuan’s Poetry
Abstract
Unknown poet Hukuan, the son of the “July Group” poet Huzheng, had a deprived childhood. Because his father was pestered by Chinese Communist Party. Hukuan died from asthma at the age of 43. He began to write poetry from 1976. Hukuan’s poetry have an absolute disregard for the trend of the times which is represented by “Today”. He didn’t allow of any mythical imagination and romanticism, but express a born defiance and suspiciousness. In ever-present threat of death, he figure out the hopelessness of Chinese alienation, draw up the apprehension and fear, despair into poetry with cold-hearted figuration. But he only attention to the phenomena of social irregularities, not interest in the way of solution. On the border between life and death, he write poetry like a stranger, pose as heathen against custom and tradition. Hukuan has managed to crystallize the alienation and tragedy of chinese society in the edge of chinese contemporary poetry.