世代如何作為方法？──詩學研究取徑的一種可能

How Does Generation Serve as a Method?-A Possible Research Path in Poetics

本文嘗試從台灣現代詩中的「世代」（generation）議題切入，思考詩學研究取徑的一種可能。透過詩選編輯及詩作檢視，各世代詩人究竟會呈現出何種差異？其間的差異，是否能成為觀察、甚至撰寫詩史的一種角度？先舉上世紀羅青所論「第六代詩人」、林燿德倡議「新世代詩人」、須文蔚提出「X世代詩人」，再從「世代」連結到「詩選」，列出三種常見之詩選集：年度詩選、同仁詩選、主題詩選。再從《一九六○世代詩人詩選集》、《台灣一九五○世代詩人詩選集》、《台灣一九七○世代詩人詩選集》三書中，思考「世代作為方法」的研究取徑，甚至以世代詩選來撰寫詩史之可能。而台灣的最新詩世代，允為未及收入三書中的「一九八○世代」（或所謂「七年級詩人」）。他們藏身在鍵盤滑鼠手機平板下，對於前行代新詩重鎮，他們往往不選擇學習與繼承，而是採取非連續性的逆音之姿，毅然迎向挑戰與製造斷裂。

This article attempts to unfold from the ''generation'' issue in Taiwan's modem poetry and consider a possible research path in poetics. Through editing poetry selections and examining poetic works, what differences will the generations of poets present? Can the differences among them become an angle of observing or even writing a history of poetry? The article first brings up Luo Qing's discussion on ''the sixth generation of poets,'' Lin Yao-Te's proposition of ''new-generation poets,'' and Shiu Wen-Wei' s idea of ''X-geaeration poets'' in the last century and then connects ''generation'' to ''poetry selection'' by listing three common kinds of poetry anthologies: poetry selection of the year, poetry selection of colleagues, and poetry selection of a theme. Next, the article thinks with the three books A Poetry Anthology of Poets of the 1960s, A Poetry Anthology of Taiwan' s Poets of the 1950s, and A Poetry Anthology of Taiwan' s Poets of the 1970s about the research path ''generation as a method'' and even the possibility of writing a history of poetry with poetry selections of generations. Taiwan' s latest poetry generation is probably the ''generation of the 1980s'' (or the so-called ''seventh-grade poets'' ), whom the three books were not able to include. Hiding under the keyboard, the mouse, the mobile phone, or the tablet, these poets often do not choose to learn or succeed when heading to the important area of new poetry but take a non-continuous posture of rebellious voice and resolutely face challenges and produce breaks.