Crescent School is an important school in the history of modern new poetry, influenced by Tagore's Crescent Collection. Generally speaking, the poetry school is divided into two periods: 1927 period. The early stage started from the spring of 1926, and the main members were Zhu Xiang, Rao Mengkan, Sun Dayu, Liu Hewen Yiduo and Xu Zhimo.
Wen Yiduo put forward the famous thought of "three beauties" in his poetic meter, namely, "the beauty of music (the beauty of syllables), the beauty of painting (the beauty of words) and the beauty of architecture (the symmetry of sections and the neatness of sentences). It was put forward in view of the scattered form of new poetry at that time. This proposition laid the theoretical foundation of the new metrical school and made some contributions to the development of new poetry.
In the later period, the Crescent School put forward the principles of "health" and "dignity", adhered to the position of "pure poetry" which was super-utilitarian, self-expression and aristocratic, and emphasized "purity of essence, thoroughness of technique and rigor of meter". However, the artistic expression and lyricism of poetry are close to modernist schools.
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The early crescent school, represented by Wen Yiduo and Xu Zhimo, tried to establish aesthetic principles for the standardization of new poetry. Crescent School clearly put forward that "harmony" and "uniformity" are the most important aesthetic features of new poetry.
Wen Yiduo's Confessions, Sin and Tiananmen Square, Xu Zhimo's Dashuai and the Happiness of Snowflakes, Zhu Xiang's Picking Lotus, Dressing Up, Lullaby, etc., are the poems that carry out the above aesthetic principles. As a reaction of the modern vernacular poetry movement itself, the theoretical proposition of "writing poetry as a composition" has been challenged by "pure poetry".
"Pure poetry" strives to explore the emotion of poetry in life, express the inner world of individuals, attach importance to feelings and images, and seek a poetic form that matches the content. Xu Zhimo, Chen and Fang, the representatives of the late Crescent School, and He Qifang, Li Guangtian and Bian, the three poets of Hanyuan, are all advocates and practitioners of pure poetry.
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