Represented by Wang, Mu and Feng Naichao, he founded the Poetry Society in the mid-1920s and was also an important symbolic poet.
Symbolism poets are mostly influenced by French symbolism poetry, and their poems pay attention to the artistic expression of self-mind. Emphasize the implication and mystery of poetry and pursue "the strangeness of conceptual connection"
(1) uses symbolic images and images to express his subtle and complicated inner world.
(2) Use imagination and metaphor to express subtle situations.
(3) Express feelings through image suggestion.
(4) Pursuing language ellipsis and skipping.
Development history
Symbolism began in the French poetry movement in the second half of the19th century, and Baudelaire's Flowers of Evil is the earliest symbolic work. Later, Wei Erlun, Malamei, Bo Han and other poets published more symbolic poems, and the Manifesto of Symbolism was published in le figaro on 1886. Since then, symbolism has matured as a school.
The theory and practice of symbolism began to influence China's modern poetry movement, and entered vernacular poetry in the 1920s. 1925, Li Jinfa published China's earliest symbolic work "Slight Rain", and in the following four years, he published more symbolic poems. In addition, Shao, Peng Zi, Mu, Feng Naichao and Wang of Crescent School also published symbolic poems.