英文摘要 |
Gu Cheng was considered the most representative poet of the Misty poetry in China emerged in the 1970s. In the past, scholarship on Gu's poems focused mainly on the dialectical relation between the poetics and the political concerns of the poet. In recent studies, researchers began paying more attention to the use of allegory in his works. Gu used allegories to create a fairyland, a world of childhood innocence, according to some critics. This paper sets out to explore why and how Gu reacted against the restrictions on art during the Cultural Revolution with metaphors of innocence in his allegorical poems. An analysis of Gu's allegorical poems in his manuscripts shows that the poet wrote on purpose to both contradict and concur the theme of innocence and of experience. The contradiction and correlation of the oppositional themes were made to hide his radical social and political critique between the lines. To conceal his real intentions from the reader, the poet used to delete words or cross out sentences in the final stanzas of his poems. Disclosing the allegorical meanings and the obscure references in his works, I argue that Gu created a literary world to write against the grand narrative of Chinese Communism. |