Guo Moruo's poems (mainly referring to the works before the founding of the People's Republic of China) are full of passion, loose style and strong lyricism besides romance. They are patriotic and thoughtful. Old-style poems such as "The Golden Comb of the Broken Moon" can be well written, but since the 1930s, the level of poetry has dropped sharply, and the poems after the founding of the People's Republic of China are basically useless.
Xu Zhimo's poems can be said to have the most sense of rhythm among modern poets, and attach great importance to the beauty of music and rhythm. However, he feels a little confused and lost after reading too much, but it is this poem with full charm and decadent and sentimental style that can be widely known and spread for a long time.
Dai Wangshu's long symbolic poems in the early stage were deeply influenced by symbolism, and their styles changed greatly in the later stage, and their feelings were profound and sad, tending to realism.
Zhu Xiang's poetry pursues rigor and meter, which is similar to Xu Zhimo's style, but most of them are realistic themes. In modern poetry, few works are similar to his misery and sadness, and his works depict reality mercilessly and ruthlessly.
Therefore, on the whole, the poems of Guo Moruo, Xu Zhimo and Dai Wangshu tend to be romantic, while those of Zhu Xiang tend to be realistic.
I look at their works and feel that the differences in the above styles should be closely related to their life course. Their poems may be immortal, but their fate is tragic-Guo Moruo was regarded as a "leisure helper" and died childless; Xu zhimo died in an air crash; Dai Wangshu was tortured by the Japanese invaders and died young at the beginning of the founding of the People's Republic of China. Zhu Xiang was embarrassed all his life and finally threw himself into the river.
This is also the tragedy of China poets and even intellectuals.