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A New Starting Point for Chinese New Poetry:On the Significance of Zang Kejia's Poetry in Literary History

Ding Er-gang

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During the May 4 literary revolution,Chinese modern poetry made great achievements on one hand,while on the other hand the Sinicism whose core was the nationhood and popularization was lost to some extend.Standing out from the Parnassus,Zang Kejia inherited the good tradition of the ancient poetry and folk songs,learned from the merits of the May 4 modern poetry and absorbed the experience of modern poetry following the West,constructed Chinese characteristic of modern poetry;abstracted poetic language from the colloquial;formed the external metre of poetry;created the typical images and artistic conceptions which formed the inner metre of poetry.Zhang Kejia's poetry could be considered as the new growing point of Chinese modern poetry and Zang Kejia was its founder and trail-blazer.

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During the May 4 literary revolution,Chinese modern poetry made great achievements on one hand,while on the other hand the Sinicism whose core was the nationhood and popularization was lost to some extend.Standing out from the Parnassus,Zang Kejia inherited the good tradition of the ancient poetry and folk songs,learned from the merits of the May 4 modern poetry and absorbed the experience of modern poetry following the West,constructed Chinese characteristic of modern poetry;abstracted poetic language from the colloquial;formed the external metre of poetry;created the typical images and artistic conceptions which formed the inner metre of poetry.Zhang Kejia's poetry could be considered as the new growing point of Chinese modern poetry and Zang Kejia was its founder and trail-blazer.

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During the May 4 literary revolution,Chinese modern poetry made great achievements on one hand,while on the other hand the Sinicism whose core was the nationhood and popularization was lost to some extend.Standing out from the Parnassus,Zang Kejia inherited the good tradition of the ancient poetry and folk songs,learned from the merits of the May 4 modern poetry and absorbed the experience of modern poetry following the West,constructed Chinese characteristic of modern poetry;abstracted poetic language from the colloquial;formed the external metre of poetry;created the typical images and artistic conceptions which formed the inner metre of poetry.Zhang Kejia's poetry could be considered as the new growing point of Chinese modern poetry and Zang Kejia was its founder and trail-blazer.

Key concepts: Poetry, Literature, Metre, Chinese poetry, Classical Chinese poetry, Art, Spoken word, Philosophy

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