In 1930s, it evolved from the crescent school and symbolism poetry school at the end of 20th century, and was also influenced by European modernism. Representative poets: Dai Wangshu, Shi Zhecun, He Qifang, Bian, Fei Ming, Louis, Li Baifeng, Jin Kemu, etc.
1929 My Memory written by Dai Wangshu became the starting point of modern poetry school. 1932。 The publication of "Modern" magazine has become an important garden for publishing modernist poetry and making it independent and mature. Modernist Poetry is also named after "Modern" magazine. The New Poetry Monthly, edited by Dai Wangshu, Bian, Liang and Feng Zhi, expanded the influence of modernist poetry and reached its peak in 1936 and 1937.
The editor of "Modern" summed up the characteristics of modern poetry school: it is "the modern emotion that modern people feel in modern life and the modern poetry form arranged by modern words".
Modernist poetry is mainly symbolism and has the characteristics of romanticism, classicism and imagism.
Poetry shows the pursuit of disillusionment, rational critical consciousness of reality, lonely mentality, pursuit of natural simplicity of language and free extension of form, which enhances the expressive power of poetry in a new way.