Chinese Journal of Literary Criticism

No.4, 2021

Urban Poetry in the Perspective of Realism

(Abstract)

Qiu Zhiwu

Applied artistic methods in a way, urban poetry expresses unique psychological feeling and emotional experience of human beings in specific urban domain, and presents people’s aesthetic taste and spiritual culture in the course of striving forward between “people and the city.” Holding the spirit of realism as a contrast of urban poetry, it will truly and objectively recur the urban reality and heart and soul of city, which is embodied in two levels: on the one hand, urban poetry develops along with cities’ expansion. Identified with urban civilization, poets sing their praise to the city with warm tones; On the other hand, criticizers have begun their thinking based on the reality in viewing of the serious repression and destruction of human nature caused by modern scientific and technological civilization.