重铸诗歌的“历史想象力”

Reconstructing the "Historical Imagination" in Poetry

20世纪90年代中后期,我国先锋诗歌出现了创造力形态的重大转换。本文主要围绕诗歌想象力在向度和质地上的变化展开论述,提出“历史想象力”的确立是其主要成就。“历史想象力”要求诗人具有历史意识和当下关怀,对生存、个体生命、文化之间真正临界点和真正困境的语言有深度的理解和自觉挖掘意识,能够将诗性幻想和具体历史语境的真实性作扭结一体的游走,处理时代生活血肉之躯上的噬心主题。“历史想象力”不仅是诗歌“写什么”的功能概念,同时也是“怎么写”的本体概念。然而,这种经由艰难探询,已经形成先锋诗歌写作的有效经验积累的范式,在90年代末以降,先是饱受了新一轮的非历史化的流行诗歌和舆论化批评的嘲笑诋毁,进而又被覆盖和消解了。面对新世纪诗歌在误解或简缩的“后现代”写作策略制导下所出现的平庸局面,本文提出重铸诗歌的“历史想象力”这一写作理念,以使现代汉语诗歌重获并保持真正的历史生存承载力和艺术上的先锋品质。

In the middle of and late 1990s,an important shift in creative forms occurred in the avant-garde poetry in China.This paper tries to argue that the poetic imagination has changed in both its direction and its texture with the 'historical imagination' as its major achievement.The so-called historical imagination requires that the poets have both historical consciousness and contemporary concerns,a deep understanding and a conscious investigation into the interface between existence——of individual being——and the culture as well as a language that has been indeed in a difficult situation.The 'historical imagination' not only concerns about the functional conception of 'what to write,' but also the ontological one of 'how to'.However,since the 1990s,it has been first criticized and ridiculed,then shadowed and deconstructed by the ahistorical pop poetry and ideology.Facing the banal situation in which the new poetry is misunderstood and controlled by the postmodern strategy of writing,this paper argues for the possibility of reconstructing the poetic 'historical imagination' in order to enable the modern Chinese poetry to regain and then to preserve the vitality of historical existence and the artistic quality of avant-gardism.