A masterpiece of crescent poetry

The early crescent school, represented by Wen Yiduo and Xu Zhimo, tried to establish aesthetic principles for the standardization of new poetry. Wen Yiduo opposed the Europeanized sentence pattern and the lyrical way in Goddess, and put forward three aesthetic standards of new poetry: beauty of music, beauty of painting and beauty of architecture. Based on the aesthetic principle of "rational control of emotions", Crescent School clearly put forward that "harmony" and "uniformity" are the most important aesthetic characteristics of new poetry. Wen Yiduo's Confessions, Sin and Tiananmen Square, Xu Zhimo's Dashuai and the Happiness of Snowflakes, Zhu Xiang's Picking Lotus, Dressing Up, Lullaby, etc., are the poems that carry out the above aesthetic principles. As a reaction of the modern vernacular poetry movement itself, the theoretical proposition of "writing poetry as a composition" has been challenged by "pure poetry". "Pure poetry" strives to explore the emotion of poetry in life, express the inner world of individuals, attach importance to feelings and images, and seek a poetic form that matches the content. Xu Zhimo, Chen and Fang, as well as He Qifang, Li Guangtian and Bian, the representatives of the late Crescent School, are all advocates and practitioners of pure poetry, among which "Biekangqiao" by Xu Zhimo and "Broken Chapters" by Bian are masterpieces of modern vernacular poetry. At the same time, influenced by French symbolist poets, Valery and others, Wang, Dai Wangshu's poems are characterized by conscious modernism: depicting a corner of the times with strange and obscure images, semi-illiterate words and lingering melodies.