History of Senior Two: Is Hu Shi's experiment in vernacular poetry successful?

Hu Shi said in "Talking about New Poetry": "The syllables of a poem depend on two important elements: one is the natural rhythm of the tone; The second is the natural harmony of the words used in each sentence. As for the rhyme at the end of the sentence, the flatness in the sentence is not important. " This is his complete negation of modern poetry. As for ancient poetry, it is already dull. However, the rhyme at the end of a sentence is the basic feature of China's poems, and it has been eliminated now. The two important elements of the syllable he said did not provide objective basis, which may be borrowed from translated foreign poems. The double-tone rhyme he pursues is the second of the eight diseases that predecessors have avoided, and it is the disharmony factor of formal language syllables. It can be seen that his thoroughness of the traditional poetry revolution has reached the degree of overcorrection.

Hu Shi's "Improvement of Literature" puts forward "eight noes", in which there is no need to use allusions or confrontation, but it is just a negation of the parallel prose of regular poetry. His new poetics is a negation of traditional poetry. In What is Literature, he said: "Literature has three elements: first, it must be clear, second, it must be powerful and moving, and third, it must be beautiful." This is generally right, but the beauty he flaunts lacks objective standards. The harmony of syllables in modern poetry advertised in Attempt Collection is exactly the poetic disease summarized by predecessors. Obviously, new poetry is flamboyant, and it is gradually abandoned by poets because of the lack of rhetoric and rhythm requirements. Some new poets pursue their own hazy beauty, which runs counter to "Ming". For example, some of Mr. Bian's poems, which even Mr. Zhu Ziqing could not understand, were also wrongly interpreted ("Preface to Zhu Ziqing's New Poems"). Therefore, in 1956, Hu Shi also said: "The new literature and poetry forty years ago were just' attempts' and have not achieved much so far." (Collected Works of Hu Shi, New Literature Movement, Zhonghua Book Company, 1993, 1 Edition, p. 283) I think this is related to Hu Shi's complete denial of traditional poetics in his early years.