Two Distinguished Poets Who Created a Novel Way of Poetry Writing around Opium War——A Comparison of the Poetry Creation between Zhang Weiping and Gong Zizhen

Zhang Weiping and Gong Zizhen,the creative poets around Opium War,bear similarities in their purpose and means in artistic expression.The poems by both are permeated with zeitgeist,patriotism and critical spirit,which greatly contributed to poetry writing.Zhang Weiping is a master in writing about the great changes of the time and his own ideological changes;while Gong Zizhen is good at dynamic reflection and penetrating criticism of social reality.They went their own way and started a new era of poetry writing,cutting a new path bravely for modern Chinese poetry writing by breaking through poetic tradition.