Last updated on March 2nd, 2024 at 10:14 pm
Yau Nai右奈, a free and independent abstract poet walking in the world. In the past 40 years, he has devoted himself to the pursuit of the freedom of poetry and the exploration of the dignity and value of life. There is a saying in “Mao Shi Xue”: the heart is the ambition, and the speech is poetry. Poetry is the natural outpouring of strong emotion. Poetry, as an aesthetic activity, reflects the poet’s examination and perception of life. Yau Nai右奈 turned this scrutiny and perception into writing on the tip of a pen, showing his rich inner world to the world in the form of poetry. His poems are short and concise, and some poems have only a few numbers, but they reveal the meaning of life. Yau Nai右奈’s poems reveal loneliness, sadness, and pain, as well as sentimentality for the passage of time and things that have passed away; reverence for life itself and persistent pursuit of beauty, hoping that his poetry can give a little something to those who yearn for beauty. Spiritual comfort.
Reading Yau Nai右奈’s poems is like traveling through the space transformation between reality and illusion, full of mystery. This mystery and abstraction is reflected in the arrangement and organization of poetic imagery. The imagery of Yau Nai右奈’s poetry is drawn from life. These individual images are well known to everyone, but they have been reconstructed and covered with a veil of mystery. The familiar becomes the new, the familiar image becomes unfamiliar. Poetry is the art of language, and the true meaning of literary language lies in “defamiliarization” to a certain extent. The Russian formalist scholar Shklovsky pointed out: “The reason why art exists is to restore people’s sense of life, to make people feel things, and to make stones show the texture of stones.” Language injects fresh blood into poetry, increases the difficulty for readers to perceive poetry, prolongs the perception time, and increases the tension of poetry language.
Yau Nai右奈’s poetry pursues absolute freedom, rejects pragmatism, and keeps away from the world. The poems are sometimes eerie; sometimes light; sometimes sad, mixed with all kinds of emotions, with a mysterious color. He has his own unique views on the creation of poetry and his attitude towards life and beauty. As for the “poet”, as Yau Nai右奈 himself once wrote “the poet is blood, the poet is the surviving leopard… He never hurt others, but was driven away by others.”. “Poets” have seen through all kinds of life, cold and warm feelings, pain and despair, but these are all evidences that “life” is alive. Ugly is close to beauty, even sadness and pain will be transformed into beauty through artistic expression under the poet’s pen. The pain with rhythm and rhythm in the poem instead fills the spirit with a kind of peaceful joy, which is also the gift the poet sends to the world, and this gift comes from the perception of life. As for life, Yau Nai右奈 once used the life itself as “eagle” to radiate the outside world. Maybe there will be all kinds of setbacks and temptations on the way of life, but you must maintain the nobility in the depths of your soul and don’t get lost by temptation. Resolutely resist the temptation, stick to the original heart, and stick to the direction of your own poetry creation, which is also an important feature of Yau Nai右奈’s poetry.
