During the May 4th New Culture Movement, new poetry was the main body of China's modern poetry. In the early days of new poetry, the main content was to abolish the formal constraints of old-style poetry, advocate vernacular Chinese into poetry, and express the poet's true feelings. Therefore, new poetry was also called "vernacular poetry", "vernacular poetry" and "national poetry" at that time. In the process of the establishment and development of new poetry, new poetry has been greatly influenced by foreign poetry. This has played a positive role in the formation of artistic methods of new poetry. On the basis of absorbing the beneficial nutrition of Chinese classical poetry, folk songs and foreign poems, many poets have explored the expression methods and artistic forms of new poetry in many aspects, resulting in various artistic trends of thought such as realism, romanticism and symbolism, and various forms such as free verse, new metrical poem, sonnet, pedal poem and prose poem have appeared. The earliest new poetry publication, New Youth, was written by Hu Shi, Liu Bannong and Shen. By the end of 19 18, Hu Shi was the author of the first new collection of poems. 1922 65438+ 10/0/5 The first new poetry publication "Poetry Magazine" was published. The inaugural issue published seven poems including Wang Jingzhi's "Wind of the emblem", edited by Ye and Zhu Ziqing, and published by Zhonghua Book Company. It is one of the publications of the Literature Research Association.
Poetry Magazine is the first new poetry magazine in China. The main contributors to this book are Zhu Ziqing, Hu Shi, Zhou Zuoren, Yu Pingbo, Ye, Zheng Zhenduo, Xu Yunuo, Chen, Wang Jingzhi, Pan Xun (Pan Mohua).