창야오(昌耀) 후기 시의 산문화 전략

Abstract

ChangYao’s poetry writing began to change after the mid-to-late 1980s. The image of the ‘deportator’ who followed ChangYao disappeared, and the dryness of ‘daily life’ eroded ChangYao’s poetry writing. Later, ChangYao’s poetry turned to a persistent search for the meaninglessness and futility of life. In the process of this transformation, ChangYao limited the lyrical elements of poetry and strengthened the narrative elements. Since the 1990s, this change has accelerated further, and prose poetry writing has been a concrete form. ChangYao’s prose strategy has something to do with changes in Chinese society since the 1990s, the collapse of past values, and the emergence of unfamiliar and embarrassing living conditions. Instead of writing poetry in an isolated situation in an exile, ChangYao acquires the language of poetry from the vivid life around him. Cities, streets, and bustling markets have transformed the historical space of ChangYao into the everyday world. In an era when everything was commercialized, the sublime and beautiful life and the ideal of poetry that ChangYao dreamed of could not be realized. In the face of an unknown reality, ChangYao felt ‘unnervous’. ChangYao’s ‘creepiness’ was something that could not be solved by rational thinking or logic. ChangYao tried to express illogical and surreal thinking through prose, not the familiar form of poetry. The only possibility a poet who had lost his ‘ideal’ of poetry could choose was a conflict with reality.