Wen Yiduo's Poetry Theory

When creating metrical style, Wen Yiduo put forward a specific proposition, which is the famous "three beauties": "The power of poetry includes not only the beauty of music and painting, but also the beauty of architecture." The beauty of music refers to the beauty of hearing in poetry, including the beauty of rhythm, flatness, stress, rhyme and pause. It requires harmony, in line with the poet's mood, fluency without awkwardness-this does not include the use of sound for special effects. The beauty of painting means that the vocabulary of poetry should try its best to express colors and colorful pictures. Architectural beauty is put forward by the pointer to the free body, which means that every verse should be symmetrical and every line should be of equal length-this equal length does not mean that the number of words is exactly equal, but that the number of scales should be the same, so that metrical poems can have a symmetrical appearance.