First, early vernacular poetry
The May 4th literary revolution began with the practice of writing vernacular poems. A considerable part of the "eight things" in Hu Shi's "Improvement of Literature" are aimed at the poetic revolution, such as opposing the antithesis of allusions, opposing the meaningless moaning of old poems, abusing cliches and advocating the abolition of parallel prose. In my view of literary improvement, Liu Bannong also actively advocated the poetry revolution, and put forward some concrete suggestions, such as "adding blank poems to rhymed poems". 19 19, Hu Shi published a long article "Talking about New Poetry", and put forward a series of constructive opinions and opinions on new poetry. Under the guidance of the theory of vernacular poetry, the creation of vernacular poetry has gradually formed an atmosphere. The first batch of vernacular poets appeared, such as Hu Shi, Liu Bannong, Zhou Zuoren, Shen and Kang.
The flattening tendency of early vernacular poems was first challenged by the poets of the Creation Society, who highlighted and emphasized the two basic elements of emotion and imagination. Guo Moruo's Goddess has brought the lyrical essence and individuality of poetry into full play. Bold imagination has made the wings of poetry soar, making Goddess the cornerstone of modern China poetry.
From the content, most of them describe love. This large number of love poems not only shows their similarities and differences, but also shows their unique contribution to China's new poems. They dare to break through the net of feudal ethics and express their love between men and women boldly and frankly. Before that, the free poems praising love were not as bold, true and enthusiastic as lake poets's, but they were not vulgar and obscene. In the introduction of China New Literature Collection, Zhu Ziqing pointed out that "China lacks love poems, and some of them are only' remembering the inside' and' sending the inside', or works with profound meanings; There are very few people who confess, and there are no people who sing love for love. " And "the four young people who really concentrate on making love poems are' lakeside'".
At the beginning of the literary revolution, in the fierce confrontation between vernacular Chinese and classical Chinese, Hu Shi and others proposed that poetry should be spoken, which freed poetry from the shackles of thousands of years old poetry. However, with the great liberation of this poetic style, new poetry has a tendency to spread culture. Poets demand that new poems break the format of five words and seven languages in form, break the level tone in syllables and abolish rhymes, thus producing a large number of new poems.