The main theory of Liang Qichao s poetic revolution;
1 affirms the positive social significance of the "poetry revolution". His Drinking Poems is a book that collects and preserves the historical materials of the "Poetry Revolution", comments on its characters, analyzes its gains and losses, advocates its significance, and focuses on a series of opinions of the poetry reformers.
Starting from the philosophical basis of evolution theory, he affirmed the inevitability and rationality of the "poetry revolution" and opposed attaching importance to the past and neglecting the present. The trend of poetry is to advance and make continuous progress.
2. Summarize the successful experience and failure lessons of "Poetry Revolution", point out the direction of efforts, and think that "new artistic conception", "new sentence" and "old style" are the highest realm of new poetry. This theory is mainly found in his travels in Hawaii. The fusion of "old style" with "new artistic conception" and "new realm" is the core of Liang Qichao's poetry theory.
The so-called "new artistic conception" and "new ideal" refer to the ideological content of poetry. On the one hand, its contents are modern philosophy, social ideal and natural science. On the other hand, it is patriotic, martial and demanding change.
3. Liang Qichao couldn't find a way out in the form change, and proposed that the "revolution in poetry circle" was to "transform its spirit" rather than "transform its form". Therefore, he agrees with the "new sentence" and opposes the simple application of western vocabulary. He thinks that Huang Tingjian is a successful model of "poetry revolution".