The Properties of Poetry and the Properties of the Chinese Language——Zhou Zuoren's interpretation of the possibilities of modern Chinese poetry

Among the great masters of the May Fourth Movement,Zhou Zuoren was the first one to have come out of the conflicting binary arguments that cancelling each other,such as Ancient and Vernacular Chinese,Old Literature and New Literature,Old Poetry and New Poetry,Localism and Cosmopolitanism.He was also the earliest advocator and theoretical constructor of new poetry,to transcended the purely enlightenment standpoint.His interpretations and sorting out of the relations between New Freedom and New Restraint in Chinese poetry,between the effectiveness of goodness and the nature of beauty,especially the properties of the Chinese language and the possibilities of Chinese poetry,are still of great inspirational significance.