The Misty School of Poetry
Beginning in 1980, a new school of poetry suddenly appeared, called the "Mongwu School". A group of young poets, with Shu Ting, Gu Cheng, Bei Dao and others as pioneers, have published a large number of poems in a new style since 1979. This kind of poetry has not appeared in Chinese literary newspapers for thirty or forty years. At first, their poems seemed to be inheriting the tradition of modernism or postmodernism, but soon they opened up new territories, went further, and became a kingdom of their own.
The Misty Poets are undoubtedly a group of messengers who have a strong desire for a bright world. They are good at implicitly expressing their dissatisfaction and contempt for the dark side of society through a series of trivial images, opening up a new world of modern image poetry. , new space.
Representatives of the Misty Poetry School after the "Cultural Revolution" include Bei Dao, Shu Ting, Gu Cheng, Yang Lian and others.
New Metrical Poetry School
The Crescent Society was a literary group founded in 1923 by Hu Shi, Xu Zhimo, Wen Yiduo, Liang Shiqiu, Chen Yuan and others. From 1926, Xu Zhimo He founded "Poetry" and "Drama Journal" in the "Morning Post Supplement". In 1927, Crescent Bookstore was established in Shanghai. In March 1928, Xu Zhimo, Luo Longji, Hu Shi, Liang Shiqiu and others founded the "Crescent" monthly magazine.
The establishment of the Crescent Society created a group of Crescent poets who focused on modern metrical treatment, and had an important impact on China's New Culture Movement. While advocating the rhythm of modern poetry, the Crescent School also emphasized the use of poetic language and vocabulary to embody the artistic conception of literary beauty in poetry creation. Therefore, the Crescent School is also called the New Metric Poetry School.
In November 1931, Xu Zhimo was killed in a plane crash. Soon after, "Crescent" magazine ceased publication and Crescent Society was dissolved.