The essence of poetry is to express emotion, but many writers of modern poetry have abandoned or weakened the straightforward linear lyric to varying degrees and replaced it with introspective secret lyric or polyphonic lyric. There are many ways to control lyricism, which can not only greatly reduce the length and proportion of subjective lyricism, but also make the lyricist invisible or transfer, emphasize the objectification of lyricism and introduce narrative and dramatic techniques. The representative figure in this respect is the English poet Eliot.
The essence of so-called "modernity" is that harmony gives way to contradictions and conflicts. This kind of contradiction and conflict occurs not only in history, politics and culture, but also in life and psychology. As for the reason, of course, it is the modern people who pay attention to, explore and express the spiritual world of modern people, and also provide them with the comfort they need. The absurdity, loneliness and alienation that individuals feel when they meet with the world have become common poetic themes, and Austrian poet Rilke is an expert in expressing such themes.
In modern poetry creation, individual experience and feelings are not only the trigger point for poetry to move towards universal human emotions, but also the theme and destination of poetry. This is because universal emotion is the collection and refinement of individual experience, and the two are not "inconsistent". In other words, life is poetry.