Artistic Exploration or Social Responsibility:On Virtues of New Chinese Poetry

The establishment of New Chinese Poetry has its poetic reason: peots in those days felt difficult to create new poetic beauty in the traditional Chinese poetic forms.However,New Chinese Poetry was quickly accepted by the public and therefore its social status is acquired because it served the New Chinese Culture Movement and the Vernacular Movement.In the process of its development,New Chinese Poetry deeply involved itself with the social and political issues.However,New Chinese Poetry started to give up the social and political concern at the beginning of the 1990s in order to concentrate on exploring its poetic beauty,which,unfortunately,turned out to be a harsh blow to its development as it has never obtained a solid artistic ground.Therefore,New Chinese Poetry will have to explore and achieve poetic beauties in the near and far future,which will finally determine its fortune or fate.