Abstract:
“The Poet Group in Southwestern China United University” actively explored poetic aesthetics and practiced new poetic constructs mainly in innovation and invention of modern poetic language. First of all, They reduced narrative and descriptive language but massively increased meditative language in poetry writing; then, they cut down straightforward and scientific statement but added largely to rhetorical and sensitive language, including paradox, metaphor, synaesthesia, irony, etc.; finally, they deliberately invented novel expressions and strange collocations to experiment with sentence structure of modern poetry and new rules of constructing poetic lines, greatly projecting the aesthetic effects of poetic language tension. With expressive, ironical and metaphorical language of “new experience” and symbolic “art”, these poets were correcting those malpractices of new poetry in its initial days, inventing a poetic language system which was capable of expressing complex and delicate implications and experience. Moreover, an obscure and “modernistic” poetic style took shape, which greatly enriched and raised the artistic quality and aesthetic taste of modern poetry.
