1923 published Bing Xin's Stars, Springs and Zong Baihua's Cloud Poems, which aroused people's concern and interest in the style of short poems.
Poetic style was introduced from abroad, and it was produced under the influence of Japanese short songs and haiku translated by Zhou Zuoren and Tagore's Birds translated by Zheng Zhenduo. The main authors are Zong Baihua and Xu Yunuo.
Short poems are improvised short poems, usually composed of three or five lines, or even one or two lines (at most, only a dozen lines), which express the author's sudden feelings and thoughts, imply and embody a philosophy of life and beautiful sentiments, and make readers have rich associations. The creation of short poems is concise, implicit and suggestive, and wins by implication.
Bing Xin is a representative poet of Xiao Shi School. Her two collections of poems, Stars and Springs, contain 346 small poems, the basic themes of which are to eulogize maternal love, childlike innocence and natural beauty. For example, "spring water. 105":
Creator-
If in eternal life,
There is only one blissful promise,
I want to sincerely beg:
"I'm in my mother's arms,
Mom's on the boat,
The ship is at sea in the moonlight. "
The trinity of me, my mother and the sea constitutes the most harmonious picture in the world. In the second part of Stars, Bing Xin shouted:
Childhood!
This is a fact in the dream,
This is a real dream,
Memories are tearful smiles.
The poem consciously praises childhood and compares it to "the truth in a dream", "the dream in reality" and "a tearful smile when recalling". Childhood is often innocent to the adult world, and the recollection of childhood is an attachment to pure and beautiful things, which embodies the desire for truth, goodness and beauty. However, childhood is short and never comes back. It can only exist as a memory or a dream outside people's brains. This kind of attachment and sigh to childhood arouses readers' cordial and true feelings. Maternal love is the core content of Bing Xin's philosophy of information processing. Bing Xin regards maternal love as the noblest feeling of human beings, and her mother once gave her "unforgettable kindness and gentleness".
"mom!
The wind and rain in the sky are coming,
Birds hide in her nest;
The storm in my heart is coming,
I only hide in your arms.
Through analogy, I praised the greatness of maternal love, and the word "only" revealed that my mother was the only refuge in my heart. This deep attachment to our mother has brought us into a gentle emotional experience.
There are also some philosophical ones, such as "it is not the rolling waves that create new land/but the tiny sediments below it." Show abstract philosophy through concrete images. This paper shows the poet's philosophical thinking through the contrast image of rolling waves and small sediment. Rolling rough, thrilling, tiny sediment caught in the waves, ignored. These two images are in sharp contrast, big and small, giant and small, obvious and hidden, but it is microwaves and unknown sediments that created this land. In the external and internal contrast of things, we can tell a thought-provoking philosophy of life.
Bing Xin's poems are deeply influenced by Tagore, fresh and profound, elegant and meaningful.
Among the small poetry schools, Zong Baihua's Cloud Poetry was published in 1923. In this collection of poems, the poet's best areas are the harmony between the poet's mind and nature and the rhythm of social life. For example:
For a moment, I felt that my little body was a little star.
Ran Ying, Wan Li and idolize.
After a while, I felt that my heart was a mirror.
The Wan Li of the universe shines in it.
Here, when looking up at the starry sky on a summer night, the subtle change of people's self-feeling in an instant was keenly grasped by the poet, which triggered people's long-term thinking about people's position in the universe. Zong Baihua's short poems are unique in China's modern poems because of their metaphysical and fantastic colors.