movement native_name_lang death_date death_place years_active birth_place nationality ethnicity name native_name birth_date language genre article_title birth_name alma_mater
`` political lyric poetry '' zh 18 october 1976 anyang , henan 1940s - 1960s fengshan , rehe , republic of china china han chinese guo xiaochuan 郭小川 2 september 1919 chinese poetry guo xiaochuan
 guo enda northeastern university
guo xiaochuan

guo xiaochuan -lrb- ; 1919-1976 -rrb- , original name guo enda , was a chinese poet .
he joined the eighth route army in 1937 , and began to write free-verse poems during the second sino-japanese war .
after 1949 , he worked for the publicity department of the communist party of china .
guo 's best known poems includes `` one and eight '' -lrb- which zhang junzhao 's film of the same name is based on -rrb- , `` tree songs on forested areas '' , `` forest of sugar cane -- gree gauze curtain '' and `` gazing at the starring sky '' .
along with he jingzhi , he is considered as one of the major practitioners of `` political lyric poetry '' style .
but guo 's poems care more about individual perception , and some of his works were strictly criticized in china in the late 1950s .
