Foreignness in The Imagery of Bei Dao’s Later Poetry The Study of “Metal” and “Rose”

Abstract

This paper firstly describes Bei Dao’s life and the general characteristics of his poems, and focuses on Bei Dao himself. Bei Dao said that “poetry is not something to be talked about”, and he did not talk about any of his poems on any public occasions. Due to the particularity of poetry style, and the intentional avoidance of the author, Scholars, and critics can only rely on the author’s life and other similar interviews, journals, theories, and so on to study the various images in Bei Dao’s poetry. The real ideological awakening of Bei Dao was his life in exile after he was deprived of Chinese nationality and political rights after Tiananmen square Crackdown. Bei Dao went to Europe, Africa, America, and other places, and lived for a long time or a short time., so the subject tone of “ Foreignness “ was highlighted in his poetry after the exile. The metaphor and transformation of metal image and nature image is the most personal characteristic.