This poem exposes and satirizes the corrupt old society by composing the symbolic image of "stagnant water" from multiple angles and levels, and expresses the poet's despair and indignation towards the ugly reality. and deep feelings of patriotism. The "ditch of hopeless stagnant water" in the poem is a symbol of the semi-feudal and semi-colonial old China. The poet grasped the "death" of the stagnant water, first wrote the silence, then the color, and then the foam, highlighting the stench and corruption of the stagnant water, and vividly expressing the feeling of "despair". Wen Yiduo is an advocate and pioneer of new poetry rhythm, and "Dead Water" is his "most satisfactory experiment" with new poetry rhythm. He emphasized the need to possess the "three beauties": the beauty of music, the beauty of painting, and the beauty of architecture. The whole poem has 5 stanzas and 20 lines, each line has 9 words, and the second and fourth lines of each stanza rhyme, with a strong sense of rhythm and musical beauty. The poem uses many colorful words and objects, and the colorful words reflect the ugliness of the content, making the "stagnant water" look even more disgusting and repulsive. The whole poem has 5 stanzas, each stanza has 4 lines, and each line has 9 characters. It has both a neat appearance and a sense of internal rhythm.
"Dead Water" makes a serious and effective contribution to establishing the rhythm and form of new poetry