Hai Zi and Gu Cheng are not poets of the same caliber.
Hai Zi possessed linguistic creativity and could use language to create a mirror world. His poetry contains a divine greater self and tension that transcends the human realm.
Gu Cheng is more like an underdeveloped child, focused on his own keen sensibilities, yet lacks sufficiently expansive love and observation of the world.
Hai Zi is a philosophical poet in the manner of Hölderlin, Rilke, and Li Bai, employing poetry as a medium for transcendent expression; Gu Cheng, by present standards, is more at the level of a literary youth—capable
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