1. Modern Poetry in China: Poetry before the first half of the 20th century is called "Modern Poetry in China".
2. Contemporary Poetry in China: Poetry after the second half of the 20th century is called "Contemporary Poetry in China".
Modern poetry refers to the poetry of about 65,438+0,840 years from around the Opium War to before the May 4th Movement of 65,438+0,965,438+0.9. It represents a historical period, that is, the bourgeois old democratic revolution period, and it is also the transition from traditional classical poetry to modern new poetry, which occupies an important position in the history of China's poetry. Poetry was quite prosperous in this period, with a large number of writers and works. Chen Yan's Modern Poetry Notes only recorded more than 360 poets since Xianfeng. Sun Dianqi's book Couplets and its sequel record more than 65,438+0,500 other collections published since Daoguang, many of which are poems or collections of poems.
Therefore, the era of modern poetry is generally considered as: before the May 4th Movement 19 19 to the period around the Opium War in the first half of the 20th century.
So modern poetry is modern poetry!