In the 70-year history of China's new poetry, Guo Moruo is undoubtedly one of the most influential poets. During the May 4th Movement, Guo Moruo, a young man, created a collection of poems, Goddess, which created a new poetic style in both content and form, marked the maturity and independence of new poetry, and became the first milestone in the history of China's new poetry. Later, he wrote poems such as the former spear, the restoration and the sound of war. Bold and magnificent imagination, strange and rich metaphors, passionate lyricism and free and flexible poetic forms make his early poems glow like goddesses.
Beginning with 1949' s Ode to Xinhua, which was written to celebrate the founding of New China, Guo Moruo wrote a series of poems that cooperated with the propaganda work of the Central Committee and closely served politics. Such as the crystallization of collective strength, unprecedented events, celebrating the Asia-Pacific Peace Conference, remembering the World People's Peace Conference, watching the second part of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, visiting locomotives, and praising advanced producers. These poems have a tendency from deductive reality to graphic politics. The slogan tendency of language is also very serious.
It is natural for poets to reflect their new life with poems. But poetry is poetry after all. It should not be a simple and direct record of life, but a positive reflection of reality. If poetry loses its basic means of poetic expression, such as imagery, imagination and metaphor, in order to meet political needs mechanically, poetry will lose its artistic vitality. Such a poem is like a ship without sails, and it will eventually run aground on the shore of the poem river.