Spinning and Ascending Top - A Hundred-Year History of the Evolution of Modern Chinese Poetry Forms

Author: Xu Ting
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Publish Date: 2006-12-01
Features: "A Hundred Years of Modern Chinese Poetry: The Evolution of Forms" aims to reveal the developmental trajectory of modern Chinese poetic forms in the 20th century while emphasizing the stages of its development. "A Hundred Years of New Chinese Poetry: The Exploration of Metrical Forms," summarizes the achievements of modern Chinese poetry's metrical exploration into three aspects: First, it has formed three rhythmic systems: the melodic rhythm of free verse, the metrical rhythm of regulated verse, and the symmetrical rhythm of regulated verse. Second, it has formed two basic formats: parallel lines and variable-length lines, pursuing the richness of new poetic formats under the principle of "uniformity of stanzas and regularity of lines." Third, it has formed two phonetic methods: traditional and modern.