Pendulum: the Developing Trace of New Verse

Reviewing the developing trace of new verse, we can see that it is very like a “pendulum” shape. This repeatedly swaying developing trace of new verse, seen from the “external pattern”, is the change from formalized style (Ge Lv) to free style and then from recite poems to new folk song; seen from “internal pattern”, it is the change from free vernacular verse to symbol verse, and then from imagery verse to featuring verse; it is also a change from expressional verse to modern epics and from satire verse to philosophic verse if it is seen from the contents. The “pendulum” shape means that new verse is in an initial stage. As in the initial stage,there is no specific literary form, poets probe in three levels of poetry sense, poetry view and poetry rhyme, so as to seek the best artistic expressional pattern.