Abstract
Since the beginning of China's century-old modern poetry, there has been a derivative tendency for poets such as Wen Yiduo, Xu Chi, and Mu Dan to become critics or critics to become poets. Since the rise of the "New Poetry Wave" in 1978 and the "Intellectual Writing" in 1987, Zhou Lunyou, Zang Di, Geng Zhanchun and others have successively entered a new process of interaction and integration of the dual identities of poets and critics, which objectively created a benign breakthrough in the poetic ecology and bred hidden dangers that are easy to ignore. Around this, we will go deep into the timeline of contemporary poetics. While studying the ideological values and language trends of "poet critics" and "critic poets", we will focus on poetry texts, pay attention to theoretical development, calibrate contradictory events, conduct cross-perspective and disciplinary comprehensive analysis, promote the deconstruction and shaping of writing identity, and carry out in-depth criticism of special information such as the nature of poets and the authority of the poetry world. This will provide new thinking for some of the doubts about the literary ecology and explain academic value.
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