Crescent Poetry School advocates new metrical poetry, advocates "rational control of emotions", opposes the disorderly and prosaic tendency of poetry, and makes a serious exploration of metrical poetry from theory to practice.
The Crescent Poetry School still adheres to the position of "pure poetry" which is super-utilitarian, self-expression and aristocratic, and emphasizes "purity in essence, thoroughness in technique and rigor in meter", but the artistic expression and lyricism of poetry are close to modernism.
Crescent poetry needs rhyme in rhythm and the closest connection in key-lock relationship, that is, it also needs to follow the progress of harmony in the sense.
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The "three beauties" principle of crescent school;
The new poetry of the Crescent School advocates that Wen Yiduo put forward "three beauties", namely "the beauty of music, painting and architecture", which laid the theoretical foundation of the new metrical poetry school.
To a certain extent, it has overcome and corrected the shortcomings of rambling vernacular new poetry since the May 4th Movement, and made a unique contribution to the healthy development of modern new poetry in China. Specifically:
(1) "Musical beauty" emphasizes "scale, flat tone and rhyme"
(2) "Beauty of painting" emphasizes beautiful, vivid and colorful words; Every poem can form an independent picture.
(3) "Architectural beauty" emphasizes "symmetry of knots and unity of sentences". Its main purpose is to have beauty in the content and form of poetry.