"Returning to Desolation":On the Imagination of Land in the Poetry of Zang Haiying
Unlike the"donations"of previous new poetry authors,Zang Haiying envisions the land through the concept of"returning to desolation".This poetic imagination deviates from the common experience of land being utilized for cultivation.A focus on the relationship between humanity and the earth does not necessarily yield a poetic essence regarding"desolation".In the poem Wilderness the vision of"returning to desolation"is derived from the poet's inner landscape,implicitly reflecting the poet's fundamental understanding of the world.As a choice made by individuals,"returning to desolation"represents a relinquishment of human potential.This poetic imagination of"the ability not to"cultivate may constitute a new poetics concerning the relationship between humanity and the earth within new poetry.