Advocating new metrical poetry, advocating the aesthetic principle of "rational restraint of emotion" and the metrical form of poetry, the Crescent poets made useful attempts in the art of poetry, first of all, the creation of objective lyric poetry, That is to say, the lyrical method of "expressing one's heart directly" is changed into the objective objectification of subjective emotions.
Then use imagination to dress up the outline of the vague image, and turn the subjective emotions into concrete images. Opposing sentimentalism and the prose tendency of poetry, he carefully explored the rhythm of new poetry from theory to practice.
The late Crescent School put forward the principles of "health" and "dignity", and still adhered to the ultra-utilitarian, self-expression, aristocratic "pure poetry" stance, and emphasized "essential rectification" , careful technique and rigorous rhythm", but the artistic expression and lyrical style of poetry are close to those of modernism.
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The Crescent Society is a literary society with great influence in the history of modern Chinese literature. It was founded in Beijing in 1923 and is the largest organization since the May Fourth Movement to explore new poetry. A literary society focusing on theory and new poetry creation. The activities of the society moved to Shanghai in the spring of 1927 and ended in 1933. The main members include Hu Shi, Xu Zhimo, Wen Yiduo, Liang Shiqiu, etc.
In the early stage, they used "Morning News Supplement" as their base, and later founded the "Crescent" monthly magazine (1928.3.10) and the "Poetry Magazine" weekly magazine (1931). The Crescent Society is a faction involved in various fields of politics, thought, academia, literature and art, and embodies the characteristics of bourgeois liberalism both ideologically and organizationally.
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