Why do people evaluate Wen Yiduo as a poet and scholar?

Wen Yiduo is an important figure in China's modern cultural history, and occupies an important position in both literary history and academic history. In the history of literature, Wen Yiduo's literary creation is mainly poetry and belongs to the second generation of new poetry writers. Although he is not a pioneer of new poetry, he is a pioneer of new poetry. From September 1920, when the first new poem "West Coast" was published in Tsinghua Weekly, to June 1930, when the writing stopped, * * * published two poems, Red Candle and Dead Water, which were small in number, but well written and excellent in articles.

Wen Yiduo and Xu Zhimo use the supplement of Morning News to publish poems once a week and explore new poems. Because of their emphasis on rhetoric and strict application of law, they were later called "metrical school", which was one of the three schools in the early development of new poetry (the other two schools were liberalism and symbolism). His famous poem "Dead Water" attempts to integrate the beauty of music, painting and architecture into the poem. Xu Zhimo once admitted that his poetry creation was inspired by Wen Yiduo. He said: "I think in the past five or six years, several of our friends who wrote poems have been influenced by the author of Dead Water. My pen was originally the most unrestrained wild horse, and I realized my wildness only when I saw Wen Yiduo's meticulous work. "

Wen Yiduo's poems, with bold and novel artistic techniques, combine inner feelings with ingenious ideas, and explore new metrical poems with gloomy and dignified style and beautiful and neat language, which provides a paradigm for future generations to create new poems. Another great contribution of Wen Yiduo to poetry is his exploration of the theory of new poetry. In view of the shortcomings in the initial stage of new poetry, Wen Yiduo wrote a series of papers and expressed his views on new poetry while creating new poetry. From 192 1 to 1926, Wen Yiduo published a series of works, such as Warm Advice to Backward Poets, Weekly Poetry Review of this School Year, Research on the Syllables at the End of Poetry, Research on Rhyme, Winter Night Review, Goddess Age and so on. Especially in the programmatic article of metrical poetry theory, the systematic new metrical poetry theory is put forward, which lays the foundation of poetic theory. Wen Yiduo's two collections of poems and his exposition on the theory of new poetry established his immortal position in the history of China literature, especially China's new poetry, and became one of the main representatives of the metrical poetry school, one of the three major schools of China poetry since the May 4th Movement.

In the field of academic research, Wen Yiduo started later than his contemporaries and had no training, but in his academic research career, he started academic research from 1928 to1944 * *, in ancient myths, songs of Chu, books of songs and so on. His research results are unique, and have a unique position in the research history of the above-mentioned disciplines, with great and far-reaching influence, and occupy an important position in the history of modern academic thought in China. He can be said to be a master of the combination of Chinese and western, and he has been studying since ancient times.