Abstract
This article studies the differing manifestations of “life” through the debate over various forms of realism in modern Chinese and Hong Kong poetics since the 1920s. It examines how the trope of life was configured over time in Hong Kong’s realist, romantic, and modernist poetics. This article analyzes the working of the trope of life in different historical moments of modern Chinese and Hong Kong poetry and how it has been embedded in the debate over different forms of realism and under various signifiers. This article also argues that the trope of life was represented as shenghuohua and used to build a stylistic identity of Hong Kong poetry in the 1970s and hence has remained the strongest and most long-lasting influence on the writing of Sinophone poetry in Hong Kong.
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