A Study on Evaluation Criteria of Modern Narrative Poems:The Preface to Li Yafeng's Studies on Modern Narrative Poems

China is a country of poetry, and there are many narratives. But the vast majority of them do not meetthe standards of Western narrative poems. Chinese narrative poems do not emphasize the account of a certain eventor a certain person, and focus attention on the development process and characteristics of social history. And theydo not pay attention to the objective narrative, but tend to express subjective feelings. Narrative poems of Chinaforms an independent and powerfulPoetic Historytradition. If we use this tradition to build the evaluation sys-tem of Chinese narrative poems, we will find the important status and value of modern narrative poetry.