Therefore, the so-called "modernism" is generally a general term for young poets with similar creative styles who rose newly from the 1930s to the eve of the Anti-Japanese War.
1936- 1937 before the outbreak of the anti-Japanese war, the modern poetry school developed into a "golden age." Poetry is very popular all over the country. The modern poetry school in this period is divided into two branches: subjective feeling and subjective understanding.
The main emotional branch is represented by Dai Wangshu. Dai Wangshu was influenced by Li Jinfa's poems at the beginning of his poetry creation, and showed a mentality of digging his heart from the beginning. His early poems, Going Out in Tears, Sorrow at Home and Nightingale, all have a lonely and miserable image of "I" to express personal worries and sadness. The gloomy style and gloomy color constitute the tone and background of Dai Wangshu's early creation. There are other modernist poets who are interested in emotion, such as Yu Gengyu and Shao. Yu Gengyu's personal life was bumpy. When he was young, he lost his wife, his hometown was in war, and he was forced to wander in a foreign land. He has many kinds of poems, such as Rose on the Skull, Dance of the Devil, Lonely Elf, etc. He often takes barren graves and skeletons as subjects, which has a Baudelaire flavor, so he is called a "sad poet". Shao has a collection of poems, The Crime of Flowers and Twenty-five Poems. The world in his mind is women and love, flowers and dreams, heaven and immortals, and he is called a "sensual poet".
Modernist poets are represented by Bian. Emotion is calm, which explores and implies the mysterious philosophy of life in the universe, and the implied philosophy is often painted with the color of metaphysics. Fei Ming, Cao and Liang all belong to this school. Fei Ming's poems have the flavor of Zen and Taoism; Cao's poems are cold and strange; Liang's poems are beautiful and graceful. They all look for the value of life in Xiaotian's "self" field and painstakingly weave a wreath of poems.
1February, 935, Shi Zhecun and others "already feel that there is no room for development in subject matter, form and description method." At the same time, in most undeveloped countries, such as China, it is difficult for obscure and plaintive modernist works to occupy a broad cultural consumption market. In addition, due to other reasons, Shi Zhecun resigned from the editing of Modern, and Shi Zhecun embarked on the old road of realistic local creation again, and founded the "third person" publication Spark with Yang Dunren, Han and others, and modernist poetry showed signs of decline. After the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, some writers who created by modernist methods subjectively pursued surreal ideas and illusions, but what filled their eyes and ears was the grim reality of leaving their homes and shedding blood and tears. Abandoning rationality, advocating absolute subjectivity and their unique pessimism and despair about high material civilization are almost insulated from the fighting psychology of workers and peasants in China for survival and liberation. As a result, the distribution of modern poetry has undergone great changes, and many poets have changed their homes and integrated their creation into the tide of realism. Dai Wangshu, the forerunner of modernism, walked out of the "lonely and rainy lane" and devoted himself to the real life of life-and-death struggle. He even wrote famous realistic patriotic poems such as "I use my residual palm" and "Prison Wall" in War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression. Bian, who is familiar with western realism, got rid of the early "melancholy and helpless fatalism" and began to complete the transformation from the inside out; He Qifang, who was once addicted to "floating clouds", bluntly declared: "I would rather cover the roof with thatch than clouds, moons and stars." Modern poetry school has gone from peak to decline.