A Review and Preview of the Modern Chinese Metrical Poetry

The modern metrical poetry together with the free verse achieved the great brilliance in one-hundred-year Chinese poetry. Modern metrical poetry originated in the early 20th century when the vernacular poetry was characterized by a free style and rough poetic effect in the overuse of feelings. It symbolizes the modernity seeking and the poetic promotion in terms of form and language. Its long evolving history involves the painstaking efforts of several generations of poets. Bearing the responsibility of new poetic art construction,they put forward unique poetic ideas and gained the modern metrical poetry widespread recognition and important status in Chinese poetry history though their fruitful artistic practice.