Wen Yiduo is an important figure in the history of modern Chinese culture and occupies an important position in both literary and academic history. In the history of literature, Wen Yiduo's literary creations are mainly poetry. He belongs to the second generation of new poetry writers. Although he is not the pioneer of new poetry, he is the pioneer of new poetry. From September 1920, when he published his first new poem "West Bank" in "Tsinghua Weekly", to 1930 when he stopped writing, he published two poetry collections "Red Candle" and "Dead Water". The number is not large, but every word is Pearls, every chapter is a masterpiece.
Wen Yiduo, Xu Zhimo and others used the supplement "Morning News" to publish "Poetry" once a week to explore new poems. Because they emphasized rhetoric and used strict rules, they were later called the "metrical school" and were one of the three major schools in the early development of new poetry (the other two schools were the liberal school and the symbolic school). In his famous poem "Dead Water", he tried hard to integrate the beauty of music, painting and architecture into the poem. Xu Zhimo once admitted that he was inspired by Wen Yiduo in his poetry creation. He said: "I think several of our friends who have written poetry in the past five or six years have been more or less influenced by the author of "Dead Water". My pen was originally the most popular. An unfettered wild horse, I just realized my own wildness after seeing Wen Yiduo’s rigorous works.”
Wen Yiduo’s poems use bold and novel artistic techniques to express the inner feelings. Emotion and exquisite conception are integrated, the style is solemn and solemn, and the language is gorgeous and neat. It is a useful exploration of new metrical poems and provides a paradigm for future generations to create new poems. Another major contribution Wen Yiduo made to poetry was his exploration of new poetry theory. In view of the various shortcomings that occurred in the initial period of new poetry, Wen Yiduo wrote a series of papers to express his opinions on new poetry while writing new poetry. From 1921 to 1926, Wen Yiduo successively published "A Advice to Outdated Poets", "A Comment on the Poems in the Weekly" this Academic Year, "A Study of Syllables at the Bottom of Poems", "A Study at the Bottom of Rhymed Poems", "Winter Night" "Comments", "The Spirit of the Times of "The Goddess"", "The Local Color of "The Goddess"", "Tagore Criticism" and "The Rhythm of Poetry" and other series of poetry review articles. Especially in "The Rhythm of Poetry", which can be called a programmatic article on the theory of metrical poetry, he proposed a systematic new theory of metrical poetry and laid the foundation for poetry theory. Wen Yiduo's two collections of poems and his discussion on the theory of new poetry established his immortal status in the history of Chinese literature, especially in the history of Chinese new poetry, and became the leader of the metrical poetry school, one of the three major schools of Chinese poetry since the "May Fourth Movement". One of the main representatives.
In the field of academic research, Wen Yiduo started later than his contemporaries and was not from a major. However, out of his deep love for traditional Chinese culture, he began academic research in 1928. By 1944, during his 17-year academic research career, he had made pioneering and breakthrough achievements in many fields such as ancient mythology, Songs of Chu, The Book of Songs, Han Yuefu poetry, Tang poetry, and ancient Chinese characters. His research results are unique in their own right and have a unique position in the research history of the above disciplines. They have had a huge and far-reaching influence and occupy an important position in the history of modern Chinese academic thought. He can be said to be a master of both Chinese and Western knowledge and a broad knowledge of the past and the present.