Shen, Liu Bannong and Liu Dabai are representatives of folk poetry in the early days of the New Culture Movement. They emphasized that new poetry should learn from folk songs. 1930, Xuan Lu Wen Cun (collection of poems and essays) was published by Zhi Min Bookstore. The poems in it are mixed with local languages, full of local flavor and nursery rhymes. After the dissolution of the Yaqian Peasant Association, Shen, who was in a sad mood, wrote a poem: A dog in Hangzhou ran to the countryside to make a lion roar; The villagers are hungry in their eyes and hungry in their bellies, and the officials are as big as rats. Rent reduction, people speak; The army is also helpless; Members also, people have fled; The chain was in front, and the notice seal came out later. Is this a prank of government officials? Large households refused to rest, refused to rest, and charged a stone rent for an acre of land. Rent reduction is not allowed, and people join families to quit smoking and cook.
Shen's thought of new poetry directly influenced the folk poets in the 1940s, such as Yuan Shui School. Eleven poems in Wencun, Fifteen Niangs, were regarded by Zhu Ziqing as "the first narrative poem of new literature". Many of his own new poems are catchy and widely circulated. The most famous is "Countermeasures" written by 1920: I am in the mirror, I am outside the mirror. I broke the mirror and disappeared. The broken mirror gave birth to me. I broke me, and everything was mirror-less. I broke the mirror, broke me. I broke it, too I don't know how many I have.