On August 30, 2016, at the opening ceremony of the graduate students of the Faculty of Humanities, Mr. Deng gave a speech entitled "Poetry and Distance".Hegel once called modern art "the modern era of prose"; Marx also proposed the "principle of imbalance" that capitalist production and poetry are incompatible; Walter Benjamin, on the other hand, was a fierce critique of "art in the age of mechanical reproduction". China is also currently in an era in which poetry has left us.
There was a brief revival of the new poetry of the '80s, because the Chinese, especially the young people, believed that they were standing at the door of a new era, moving from darkness to light. A large number of "hazy poets" such as Bei Dao, Shu Ting, and Gu Cheng have excited the romantic feelings and unrestrained poetry of the whole society, and the relative poverty of life has not stopped people's longing for the distance and the future.
However, in the 90s, the situation changed, the social trend has retreated from the grand narrative of national politics to the narrow world of individual livelihood, the elite class has gone to the sea to make a living, the cynicization of intellectuals, the marketization of the education system and the cruel competition on the battlefield of the college entrance examination, so that several groups of new generation of college students do not know what poetry is from an early age.
In the 21st century, the Internet has rapidly fast-paced and fragmented mindsWith the visual impact of virtual reality, it is difficult to condense poetry in the garden of the soul。China's thousand-year-old tradition of "poetry" today only retains a trace of residual rhyme in the sentence structure of official articles and the subdued and frustrated advertising language. In the early years, a certain ** to".Lamb carcassesWon the Lu Xun Literature Award Poetry Award, the poem said:
Xu Fan's beauty is the beauty of a pure woman I have always wanted to see her I have not fulfilled my wish In fact, when I was a child, I lived very close to her A wall apart Her family lived on the side of the Xishang Racecourse My family lived on the side of the Xishang Racecourse Later, she became popular The husband and the wife took a lot of applause and applause** Xu Fan).
Last year's Lu Xun Literature Award Poetry Award caused another scandal, a poet put on a wine and invited guests to run a relationship, and almost won the award, but was later stirred up by Fang Fang, but Fang Fang also lost the lawsuit.
We can't help but say that Chinese poetry is dead!
However, poetry and distance are still dreams in the hearts of young people. Although our era is no longer the ** era of poetry, wherever there are people, there are poems. Poetry takes us away from what is in front of us and into the distance. Milan Kundera said that a poet is "to live elsewhere" (Rimbaud). But what is "elsewhere" and what is far away? The distance is not a place tens of thousands of kilometers away, the distance is actually in our hearts. Heidegger gave an exampleWhen I miss the old bridge in Heidelberg, even if I am a long way from the city and the bridge at this time, I am closer to the bridge than the man who walks across the bridge every day and rushes to work. ("Building, Dwelling, Thinking").
It has been said that the difference between humans and animals is that humans have language; It is also said that the essence of language is poetry. It can be seen that the essence of man is poetry, but under certain circumstances, man loses his essence and turns himself into an animal, or even a plant or a stone. Now we have to go far away to seek our essence, because we can no longer find it in real life. But this distance is actually in the depths of the soul.
This road to find oneself is long and difficult, it has no street lights, no stars, and no one to accompany it. The only thing that can accompany you is the voice of the poem, which is a monologue, but if it can be spoken, it is a spiritual resonance. Now people are talking about the "power of the wilderness" of athletes, and the real poetry is the power of a person's wilderness, which is by no means a disease-free moan, but a humanity. "Zhou Yi" said: "Observing astronomy, observing time changes, observing humanities, and turning into the world", the transformation of poetry into the world is to make human beings enter civilization spiritually and become a person with "culture".
Therefore, a person engaged in the study of humanities does not have to be a poet, but he does not have to have a poetic spirit. Literature, history and philosophy are all "human studies", and the objects of study are all human beings, and history, poetry, and thinking are integrated. Every student who enters the temple of humanities must understand this, you are not just learning a "profession", not just a "profession", you have to listen to your inner voice, listen to the voice of poetry. There is no better understanding of people than poetry.
What is historiography in terms of historiography? Historiography is not equal to historiography, nor is it equal to the study of human beings or think tanks, history is the study of people, and it is the science of human nature. Without this vision, historiography is boring and meaningless. Because history cannot be repeated, and history cannot be assumed, what is the point of studying history? Only by taking history as the study of human nature, and seeing how human nature has developed to this day and where it will develop, can history be full of humanism and poetry.
As far as literature is concerned, literature is a well-recognized anthropology, and the study of literature is not to learn a set of established norms, nor to memorize biographies and famous sentences in the history of literature, butLearn to master the skill of "interpreting poetry with poetry", and achieve soul communication with ancient and modern poets.
In the end, philosophy and poetry seem to be the furthest apart, but they are actually the closest, and they are two connected peaks in the vision of human nature. True philosophy is poetic, and true poets are philosophers. I have written a lot of literary criticism, and my personal experience is that when I try to diagnose a literary work with my philosophy as a "doctor", I often find that I am the one who is being diagnosed and the one who needs to be diagnosed. I said in my collection of conversations with writer Rean Xue, "Spinning and Ascending: Trek".
On the surface, the philosopher is the artist's psychiatrist in his dealings with the artist, and he seems to be able to make a clear position for the artist; But in reality the artist is the philosopher's awakener, who is able to unearth what the philosopher insists on behind the subconscious and put it in danger. In this process, the vivid and lively "materials" put forward by Rean Xue from a literary standpoint undoubtedly have the effect of shaking my philosophy from the foundation. In this sense, she is indeed a kind of forewarning and ** of my rigid and fixed tendencies. Of course, this in itself is recognized by my own philosophical views.
Philosophy is to push poetry into the distance and look at it from afar; Poetry brings philosophy back to life and injects it into life. This tension between the far and the near just constitutes the inner vision of anthropology. ▇
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