Hu Shi's poems belong to the pioneering work of China's modern poems, and retain the features and features of modern poems when they were first created. The viewpoint of Hu Shi's drama improvement thought comes from his thinking about literary revolution. He believes that the written form is a tool of literature, and it is difficult to express meaning if the tool is not applicable.
With regard to the connotation of poetry, Hu Shi put forward the view that writing articles is not moaning without illness in On Literary Improvement, and pointed the finger at those poems that hurt spring and grieve autumn, thinking that these poems are full of cliches, which shows that Hu Shi is quite dissatisfied with some traditional poems that have been passed down from generation to generation without novelty, affectation and moaning without illness, which Hu Shi also rejected.
At the same time, Hu Shi also tried to use this as a breakthrough to abandon those old images and bring new atmosphere to the innovation of poetry. In his creative practice, he got rid of Chen Xiangyin's imagery rhetoric, and the language style of his poems was also in line with his advocacy of "plain and easy to read", creating a plain and simple artistic conception with plain brushwork.
In terms of image, Hu Shi began to be rooted in the abstract level of thought, system, spirit and technology, making the created image abstract instead of concrete; At the same time, Hu Shi began to pay attention to the influence of image description on thought, language, structure and temperament. Therefore, Hu Shi's thoughts and feelings about traditional images are different from the past.