A Brief Introduction to the Author of Selected Poems of Dai Wangshu

Dai Wangshu (1905-1950), a native of Hang County, Zhejiang Province, is a famous modern poet in China. Formerly known as Dai Chaoan, his pen names are Dai Mengou, Ai Anfu, Jiang Si, etc. Dai Wangshu is a famous poet in Rain Lane in modern China. Although his poems and poetics are small in total, they are full of personality. However, "less wins more" has had a wide and far-reaching impact. He is a representative figure of modernist symbolism poetry and occupies an important position in the development history of China's new poetry. His poems, such as Rain Lane, Wall in Prison and I Use Broken Palm, are all representative works of China's new poems. Dai Wangshu's talent is based on high cultural accomplishment, and his poems combine the obscure novelty of western European poetry and the subtle and keen emotional quality of China's classical poetry, thus creating his own unique poetic style. He is not only good at absorbing the skills of western modernist poetry, but also deeply maintains the traditional poetic heart of his own nation. As the standard-bearer of modernist new poetry, he had a great influence on the development of China's new poetry in both poetry theory and creative practice.