Modernist poetry produced by China in 1930s was generally inspired and influenced by French symbolism poetry. At the same time, he inherited some artistic pursuits of China symbolist poetry represented by Li Jinfa in the 1920s. In 1930s, China's modernist poetry especially pursued the hazy beauty produced by poetry creation as a whole, and pursued the connection between fantastic ideas and complex images, so as to construct the connotation of poetry. Modernist poets often sigh with their unique youthful morbid heart, express their dissatisfaction and struggle with society, and also reveal their deep loneliness and melancholy about life.
Dai Wangshu was a "representative of modernist poetry" in 1930s.