|
Based on the poems, novels, proses, plays, reportage, reviews and journalistic articles written by the poets of the Chunfeng Poetry Society, this paper explores the changes in the ideas of the Society members, and attempts to arrive at a general conclusion about the Society and the poets. This research is composed of two parts: the first part discusses the Society in the 1980s, when the Chunfeng Magazine, the Chunfeng Poem Journal and the Chunfeng Poems all showed distinctive left-wing characteristics; and the second part focuses on Zhan Che, Zhong Qiao and Yang Du, three representative poets after the dismissal of the Society. These poets remain influential until today.
This paper takes global modernities proposed by Arif Dirlik as the guiding theory. Globalization is not simply an economic term. It carries ideology and arouses specific temporal-spatial imaginations. Dirlik therefore uses the term global modernities to refer to globalization. Driven by capital, global modernities came into existence along with deepening nationalism and national power. The distribution of central cities creates more marginal regions. Transnational bourgeoisie thus came into being. From the 1980s to now, the Chunfeng Poetry Society in Taiwan evolves along with the process of global modernities. The poems are resistant. This paper therefore highlights two concepts, namely left-wing intellectuals and critical horizon.
On one hand, the Society fits the collective characteristics of the left-wing intellectuals and the role they intend to play in the society. These intellectuals have a strong sense of social responsibility. In this paper, the left-wing intellectuals value the combination of the static and dynamic “actions” of the poets. Zhan Che came up with three resistant “local” places, namely the Watermelon Hut, the Orchid Islet and the Green Island. Zhong Qiao focuses on the Third World oppressed by the west. Yang Du proposed the dream poetry based on the imagined Utopia. As left-wing poets, they all resist the global modernities and the unhealthy development of global capitalism in their poems.
On the other hand, this paper adopts the critical horizon to discuss the importance of resisting global modernities and capitalism, the left-wing intellectuals, the left-wing works, the left-wing theories and the left-wing history, which leads to the left-wing critical horizon. By analyzing the meaning conveyed by poems and the ideas expressed by the left-wing poets, this paper develops the critique method of fusion of horizons based on the history and future of the left-wing groups. This method involves the readers. Both researchers and authors can interpret the meaning of texts, which makes poem understanding flexible. In this sense, this paper comes up with a path and paradigm to analyze, read and appreciate the left-wing political poems.
|