从"向日葵花"到"经霜枫叶"--诗人刘章及其诗美追求

刘章在大跃进的年代走上诗坛 ,虽然诗歌受时代政治思想观念的局限 ,有图解概念、粉饰生活的一面 ,但作为“农民诗人”、“庄稼人的儿子”,仍有植根于农村深厚土地中的好诗贡献着特殊的审美价值。经过“文化革命”十年浩劫的砥砺 ,他的诗从单纯、清新、欢快而转向深厚、深沉、凝重。尤其是“文革”后期和以后的新时期 ,刘章面对现实的吟唱 ,追求的都是生活的真实和诗人“自我”的忠诚 ,同时不少诗篇又以其饱含人生体验和生活哲理而达到“无我之境”。其《南国行》标志着刘章诗风的巨变 ,无论内容、形式和情调都与前大为不同。这个在诗苑四十年不断探索、辛勤耕耘、成绩卓著、硕果仅存的“农民诗人”,他所代表的是一个时代。

LIU Zhang and his pursuit of poetic beauty

LIU Zhang took up writing in the period of the Great Leap Forward(1958),when the poems,to a certain extent, presented a false picture of peace and prosperity owing to the limitation of the times and political atmosphere. However,as a "poet of the peasant"or a "son of the peasant",he wrote a large number of poems of aesthetic value,rooted in the rural deep soil.After the Cultural Revolution (1966-1977),his poems changed from purity,freshness and liveliness to honesty,deepness and richness.Ever afterwards,facing the real life,he has pursued the true and faith in "self",thus many of his poems full of life experience and philosophy reach a state of "no self",His Travel to the South marks his tremendous change in poetic style including the content,form and sentiment.Forty years of painstaking work has brought him great successes,so it should be said that LIU Zhang represents an era.