It laid the theoretical foundation of the new metrical poetry school. To a certain extent, it overcame and corrected the shortcomings of rambling vernacular poetry since the May 4th Movement, and made a unique contribution to the healthy development of modern poetry in China.
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The beauty of music emphasizes "there are scales, flat tones and rhymes".
The beauty of painting emphasizes beautiful, vivid and colorful choice of words; Every poem can form an independent picture.
The beauty of architecture emphasizes "symmetry of knots and unity of sentences". Its main purpose is to have beauty in the content and form of poetry.
Sanmei put forward:
In the early days of the New Culture Movement, there were probably two schools of poets who wrote new poems. One school devoted itself to writing free poems in vernacular Chinese, and the other mainly wrote "three beauties". The slogan of writing vernacular free poems is the loudest, with Hu Shi as the representative; The creation of "three beauties" poetry is aimed at freedom, and they oppose unrestrained freedom.
On the occasion of the outbreak of free verse in vernacular Chinese, Wen Yiduo and others realized the confusion of free verse: although the metrical norms of traditional poetry, such as rhyme, parallelism and antithesis, have been broken, there is no genre form of new poetry. Therefore, almost at the beginning of "vernacular free poetry", "vernacular metrical poetry" also began. Wen Yiduo urged to break the old and establish the new, and to break the old, we must establish the new.
1926, Shi Juan, the supplement of Morning News, was founded, and Wen Yiduo was the editor-in-chief. From the very beginning, Shi Juan advocated the establishment of poetic norms, and thus trained many poets of the Crescent Poetry School, including Wen Yiduo, Xu Zhimo, Zhu Xiang, Rao Mengkan, Sun Dayu, Liu and Lin.
The beauty of music refers to hearing, the beauty of painting refers to language, and the beauty of architecture refers to vision. In Wen Yiduo's view, the beauty of music and painting both come from classical poetry, and the beauty of architecture is indeed unique to new poetry. For example, he said that the architectural form of ancient poetry is fixed, while the architectural form of new poetry is endless and changeable.