Shanghai Yadong Library 1920 The Trial Collection, first published in March, is the earliest new poetry collection in the history of modern Chinese literature.
Writer Hu Shi not only promoted the formation of his concept of "new literature" by "trying" to write vernacular poems, but also further deepened his creation of new poems under the guidance of the concept of "new literature". He attaches importance to the exploration of "new ways" of poetry content, and emphasizes that poetry should write life experiences and express true feelings.
Some poems in Try Collection touch on current affairs and express the ideal of pursuing freedom and democracy. Some poems about scenery and objects also have novel artistic conception and fresh ideological atmosphere. "Trial Collection" created a "new form" of vernacular poetry, realized the "great liberation of poetic style" and provided a useful reference for the development of new poetry.
Hu Shi 19 10 went to study in the United States, studying agriculture first, and then studying liberal arts. 19 17 received a doctorate in philosophy, and after returning to China, he became a professor in Peking University. 19 16, he mailed the article "Improvement of Literature" to Chen Duxiu, editor-in-chief of China's "New Youth", and Chen published the article in the fifth issue of Volume 2 in 19 17, thus opening the first page of China's modern literary revolution. Hu Shi pioneered China's free verse, and his Trial Collection is the first collection of modern poetry in China, which has a great influence.
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"Try to collect" is divided into two parts. The first part sorts out 23 short poems, all of which were written by the author 19 16 to 19 17 when studying in the United States. The second part sorted out 29 short poems, all of which were written by the author in the literary revolution movement after returning to China. Most of the poems collected in the first book are five or seven words, and they have not got rid of the stereotype of classical Chinese. Hu Shi himself said that "it's just some washed old poems", which is an "attempt" to write poems in vernacular Chinese.
The second part of the poem is not only written in vernacular Chinese, but also breaks the format of five-character and seven-character poems and replaces them with free and lively long and short sentences; Break the rigid flat limitation of old poetry and replace it with natural syllables with modern pronunciation; Break the mechanical rhyme of old poems and replace it with the rhythm of modern language. The Trial Collection broke through the shackles of old poems in form and opened the way for the great liberation of new poems. At the same time, in terms of ideological content, it also has the anti-feudal color of the times.
Trial Collection is the first new collection of poems in the history of China's poetry development. Mao Dun once said that The Collection of Attempts "shines with the light of bourgeois revolution, but it only flashes by", which not only fully affirmed the position of this collection of poems in the new literature, but also pointed out that it has not fully reflected the revolutionary spirit of the May 4th era, and the language form has not been completely liberated from the old poems, so it is only a flash of the light of bourgeois revolution.
Yang Yi pointed out in "China New Literature": "The most important value of" Trial Collection "is that he took the lead in writing vernacular poems for the new literature movement, and that he broadened people's horizons and courage in writing new poems.
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