Chapter Twenty. The new poetry tide

As regards carrying on aspects of mainstream poetry, the contemporary lyric form was continued and given added impetus by some young of the late 1970s. The nature and depth of the revolt of the other requires further analysis. The new poetry tide to which this chapter refers is precisely this trend in poetry during the 1980s, which exhibited several characteristics of revolt against contemporary poetical norms. Initially, it was termed the movement. The young writers who were termed poets during the early 1980s began writing poetry during the Cultural Revolution. At the time, the five poets, Bei Dao, Shu Ting, Gu Cheng, Jiang He, and Yang Lian, were seen as the representative of Misty poetry. For a few years beginning in 1984, the most active location for experimental poetry activities of the newborn generation was Sichuan. Keywords: Bei Dao; contemporary political lyric poetry form; Gu Cheng; Jiang He; Misty poetry movement; poetry; Sichuan; Yang Lian