The Contributions of Early Vernacular Poets to China's 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, at that time, new poetry was also called "vernacular poetry". In the process of its establishment and development, 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 exploration of many poets and the creation of some excellent poets have gradually made new poetry mature and diversified. Since the May 4th Movement, new poetry has been the main body of China's modern poetry.