What does the appearance of May 4th New Poetry mean in the history of China's poetry development?
Compared with western poetry, China has a longer and stronger tradition of realism. This is related to China's traditional cultural thought and the characteristics of China's classical poetry. The realism of China's poetry directly influenced the new poetry in the early May 4th Movement. Early new poetry rebelled against form (language, format, rhythm, etc.). China's classical poetry realized the great liberation of poetic style, but it inherited the tradition of realism and formed the initial wave of realism in modern poetry in the literary trend of thought and the theoretical atmosphere of new poetry at that time.