The Basic Features of China's Modernist Poetry

Modernist poetry produced by China in 1930s was generally inspired and influenced by French symbolism poetry. At the same time, it also inherited some artistic pursuits of China Symbolic Poetry School represented by Li Jinfa in the 1920s. In 1930s, China's modernist poetry especially pursued the hazy beauty of poetry creation as a whole, and deconstructed the connotation of poetry with the combination of whimsy and complex images. Modernist poets often sigh with their unique youthful morbid heart, express their dissatisfaction and struggle with society, and also reveal their deep loneliness and melancholy about life. Modern Poetry, New Poetry, Xiaoya and Shi Zhi were the main carriers of the publication of modernist poetry in 1930s. The poet Louis once said that his poems, New Poetry edited by Dai Wangshu and Xiaoya edited by Wu Benxing were the representatives of China poetry in the 1930s/kloc-0, and Dai Wangshu was the "representative of modernist poetry" in the 1930s. Other main representative poets are Chen, Nan Xing, Xu Chi, Fan Cao, Wu Benxing and Louis.