PERSONAL: Born 1956, in China; immigrated Gu Cheng (simplified Chinese: 顾城; traditional Chinese: 顧城; September 24, – October 8, ) was a famous Chinese modern poet, essayist and novelist. He was a prominent member of the "Misty Poets", a group of Chinese modernist poets.
Essays, interviews, recollections and unpublished Gu Cheng was a world-famous modernist Chinese poet, essayist, and novelist. He was born in Beijing in , the son of poet and People’s Liberation Army soldier Gu Gong. When Gu was twelve, Mao Zedong’s Cultural Revolution began its violent “re-education” programs, and his family was sent to rural Shandong province.
Bei Dao, Gu Cheng, Gu Cheng's poems break the political preaching, impress readers with rich imagination and imagery, and return the poems to their original form. He also tried to use clear, simple words and sentences to express his feelings and avoid the language of poetry being obscure.
“Life and the Fragrance of One of the well-known 'Misty' poets. The son of the army-poet Gu Gong, he spent four years in a remote part of Shandong province during the Cultural Revolution. Despite (or because of) his celebrity, his first collection of poetry Hei yanjing [Eyes of darkness] was not published until
Wang Gungwu, AO, CBE is Gu Cheng born in an intellectual family was under good cultural influence in his childhood and had inherent refined emotions. He created the poem Poplar at the age of eight as a precocious poet. In his youth, sufferings in the Cultural Revolution cast inerasable shadows on his soul, and exerted huge influence on his later poetry creation.
Martin, 1999. Brooks, Peter. In October , Gu Cheng attacked his wife with an axe before hanging himself. She died later on the way to a hospital. The story of his death was widely covered in the Chinese media. The two-line poem titled "A Generation" ("一代人") was perhaps Gu Cheng's most famous contribution to the contemporary Chinese literature.
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It comes into this world of its own accord, not by the will of the poet."Gu Cheng Gu Cheng () is one of China's most celebrated contemporary poets. His early death ended a literary career that was influenced by the Cultural Revolution and that reawakened the lyricism of Chinese poets during the s. Zha's tragic life has Gu Cheng (–), a prominent member of the “Misty Poets”, lived the last part of his life in the West as he was exiled in So he stayed abroad separeted from his country and people.