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旷野诗选
Wilderness Anthology

Afterword

“Are there any honesty words that enable the mass to be kind, nice and strong?
Are there any warm and enthusiastic words to support people to go out of desolation
and coldness?” (Lu Xun. On the Power of the Satanical School of Poetry in The
Complete Works of Lu Sun. Beijing: People’s Literature Press, 1981）Language, an
abused tool usually for groaning with an imaginary illness, is to depict indescribable
illusion by dislocating facts and falsehood, which consumes inner ornate phraseology
and passion ceaselessly. (Qi Hongwei. On the Spiritual Resources of Modern and
Contemporary Literature. Journal of School of Chinese Language and Culture, Nanjing
Normal University. 2007(3). P88) It’s hardly to see the honesty words with warmth

to make people put on kindness in strong soul so as to be rescued from the darkness
of bleak indifference. Language should shine gloriously but covered by darkness.
Language should embody the thickness of thoughts but reveal superficial and merciless
skin. Language should proceed freely without hindrance in the restriction of truth but
had been flooded in the border without standards or prisoned with too many constraints.
Language ought to face light directly, exposing under the radiance of sunshine.
All things are naked, but not transparent necessarily. It shall experience sorrowful

trainings and evil tests, embraced with outstanding courage, until arrives at the other
bright shore. Language is usually ambiguous and dubious with full of conflicts and
misunderstandings, which cannot conceal its unparalleled value.
Poem is one of the forms to represent language. The spreading language is
width of poem, while poem is the condensed version of the essence of language. The
language of essay is sentiment of poem. The language of novel is mind of poem. The
language of original classic is source of poem. The language of drama is plot of poem.
The language of diary is secret of poem. The language of fairy story is wings of poem.
Poem could be integrated into all literature genres, but not to be replaced. Then, poem

could present content with varied colorful splendor in a more essential mode, making
people be quiet for a moment, feel excited for a while, fly over the mundane or land
soon, from the miscellaneous and busy life. However, poetry is loaded with a mission

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