在现代与传统之间

余光中的诗融会了西方现代文化的灵性和中国传统文化的神韵，在传统与现代、历史与现实之间走出了一条属于自己的现代主义诗歌的创作道路，具有鲜明特征。在内容上，表现出强烈的“中国情结”和“乡愁母题”特征，体现出强烈的中华民族意识和坦诚的人生情怀。在艺术上，将西方现代诗艺与中国传统诗歌精神相融合，一方面受西方象征主义、存在主义和超现实主义的影响，另一方面借助于中国古代诗词传统的联想、象征手法和结构的优点，在表现现代人自身的主体意识方面有很大的突破。他的诗构思巧妙、想象丰富、追求诗的整齐，讲究诗的和谐，强调诗的节奏韵律，创造了与中国语言文字特点相结合的民族化的诗歌艺术美，赋予了现代新诗活力。

Between Modernity and Tradition ——On the Characteristics of Yu Guang-zhong's Poetry

Blending the charm of Chinese traditional culture and theintelligence of modern western culture in his poetry, Yu Guang-zhong has blazed his own trail of peotry writing of modernism, which goes between the paths of convention and modernity as well as between the paths of history and reality. Yu Guang-zhong's poetry possessed the following distinctive characteristics: as to the content, his poetry always focuses on the theme of nostalgia cherished by overseas Chinese, which represents intense love for life. As to his means of artistic expression, being greatly influenced by the symbolism, existentialism , and super-realism in the west as well as association, symbol and structure in classic Chinese poetry, he combines the spirits of traditional Chinese poetry with techniques of modern western poetry. By this means, he has made a breakthrough in expressing the self-consciousness of modern individuals. With the ingenious plot, abundant imagination, neat structure, harmonious form and melodious rhythm and rhyme, Yu Guang-zhong's poetry exhibits the poetic beauty which is closely related to the features of Chinese language and characters and adds vigor to modern Chinese poetry.