海德格尔在其著名的诗学文论《诗人何为?》中,借用诗人荷尔德林的一句诗来对他所处的那个时代进行追问:“……在贫困时代里诗人何为?”接着,他又对“贫困时代”进行了详尽的解释。“世界黑夜的贫困时代久矣。既已久长必会达到夜半。夜到夜半也即最大的时代贫困。于是,这贫困时代甚至连自身的贫困也体会不到。这种无能为力便是时代最彻底的贫困,贫困者的贫困由此沉入暗冥之中。贫困完全沉入了暗冥,因为,贫困只是一味地渴求把自身掩盖起来。…… In his famous poetics ”What is a poet?“, Heidegger uses the poem of a poem by Holderlin to question the era in which he lives: ”... what is a poet in a poor era? “Then he gave an exhaustive explanation of ” Poverty “. ”The age of poverty in the dark of night is long, and it will surely reach the midnight when it is long, and the greatest poverty of the time in the night till midnight, so even this impoverished age can not even experience its own poverty. The most complete poverty, the poverty of the poor thus sink into the dark, poverty completely sink into darkness, because poverty is simply blindly seeking to cover themselves up.