The Question of Identity in Chen Nianxi's Working Poetry
In modern society,people are generally troubled by the sense of self-identity in the social collec-tive,which is the anxiety of modernity,a symptom of their own insecurity in the midst of drastic social changes.As a representative poet of working poetry,Chen Nianxi faces a double identity dilemma.His poems not only express his dilemma of self-orientation and value-seeking in the face of the city as a working man,but also re-flect his confusion of how to speak for himself and his group as a working poet and seek identity in the poetry world.Poetry is his catharsis,and he always struggles in the dilemma rather than sinking.