Chinanews.com, Guangzhou, May 26 (Reporter Cheng Jingwei) "In the new era, poets should be good at incorporating new things and new technologies in daily life into poetry, so that poetry can be closely integrated with the times and truly reflect the changes in Chinese society in the new era. "President of the Chinese Poetry Society and member of the Presidium of the Ninth National Committee of the Chinese Writers Association, Yang Ke pointed out in Guangzhou on the 25th that when poetry writing uses imagery, it should not be limited to natural objects.
On the same day, hosted by the Guangzhou Federation of Literary and Art Circles and undertaken by the Guangzhou Greater Bay Area Cultural Exchange Promotion Center, a series of thematic reading activities of "Learning the Party History and Pushing New Works" jointly launched with the city's red cultural venues was officially launched.
The series of activities will consist of 16 reading salons.
The first event was held at the New Era Civilization Practice Center in Conghua District, Guangzhou.
As a well-known poet, Yang Ke shared his thoughts and insights in poetry creation with the theme of "New Era Poetry Writing" and around his personal experience and representative works.
Yang Fang, the host and vice president of Guangdong Recitation Association, recites Yang Ke's latest poem "Hearing Flowers".
The poem consists of 11 sections. It uses the landmark landscapes and city flowers of 11 cities in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area as its imagery. It has a compact structure, a peculiar imagination, and a strong language.
Afterwards, Yang Ke shared his creative experience with the works "Hear the Flowers Blooming" and "The Sky of the Greater Bay Area" to the audience.
He pointed out that the key to poetry writing is to explore new perspectives and bring readers a brand new aesthetic experience with ordinary things.
"Hearing the Flowers Blooming" selects the city flowers of the cities in the Greater Bay Area as its imagery, vividly showing the colorful faces of the 11 cities in the Greater Bay Area that are blooming and "the tide is rising and sailing." With the flight density as the starting point, by depicting the aerial view of the Greater Bay Area, a magnificent picture of regional economic and social development is drawn: "A giant dragon steps on colorful auspicious clouds/Zhengyu turns into a fairy, Pearl River, Xiangjiang/Haojiang, together The South China Sea is like a flying carpet."
The first series of thematic reading activities of "Learning the Party History Biography and Pushing New Works" series was held in Conghua.
Photo by Li Manxia
How to discover new perspectives in poetry writing?
Yang Ke believes that less concepts and more images should be used to write poetry.
Chinese classical literature has always attached importance to imagery, which has formed a unique tradition of "feeling". A large number of excellent poems have a unique aesthetic appeal of "infinite words but endless meaning".
The creation of new poems should also draw beneficial nourishment from classical poems.
Specifically, Yang Ke shared with the citizens the poem "I saw my motherland in a pomegranate" as an example. It is reported that this work selects pomegranate as its image, uses association and imagination to dig deeper into its different local characteristics, and finds the point of fit with the theme. It not only expresses the profound and magnificent feelings of family and country, but also contains a strong aesthetic meaning. (Finish)