Negative Influences of Prose-Poetry on the Chinese Neo-Poetry in the 20~(th) Century

Prose-poetry was a special lyric style of literature in China in 20~(th) century. Its literal style had long been misunderstood by neo-poets. Prose-poetry had nearly become popular verse during early period of Neo-Poetry and was therefore cherished by Chinese neo-poets. It gave neo-poets too much freedom in style. Consequently, neo-poets had developed a strong love for the prosaic beauty of poetry, and thus there had appeared longstanding disagreements between free style and grammatical rules in development of Neo-Poetry. That was why Neo-Poetry, despite development for a century, failed to establish a relatively set style. Besides, it was not right to use prose-poetry as name of this lyric style.