On The Evolution Of New Poetic Style

The style of modern verse is a special symbol system, which owns stable structures and can reflect the aesthetic qualities of modern verse. The symbol system can highlight the symbol structure and encoding mode of the texts of modern verse, concentratedly reflect external morphological characteristics and internal aesthetic nature of modern verse and to some extend have the features of normative, commonality and stability.The evolution of the style of modern verse regards the genre of modern verse between the late Qing Dynasty and the foundation of the PRC as the object of study, in which efforts are made to clarify tracks of modern verse style evolving under the vernacular context, to explore reasons of the evolving, to analyze the aesthetic characteristics of three representative styles and to summarize the law of modern verse style evolution, existed experience and lessons and the reference significance to construction of modern verse style in the future.The evolution of modern verse style on the whole takes on contradictory and developing ups and downs of free verse-- metrical verse -- free verse--metrical verse. By exploring the evolution track of modern verse style, the general clues and threads in each phrasal are clearly depicted. Vertically, development pattern of modern verse style has been presented. Horizontally, the relationships, which are between modern verse style evolution and the language change, the demand of society, the impact of foreign literature, the acceptance of readers and the regular exercise of norm and anti-norm, are to be excavated.The evolution of modern verse style is impacted by many factors. However, there are two key factors:first, changes in literary language; second, the impact of social and time background. Languages decide styles. The styles of modern verse rely heavily on the auditory and visual impacts and shocks of vernacular language. Another important reason is an external factor of social and time background. In addition, the evolution of modern verse style also has been impacted by'foreign literature, by the acceptance of readers and by and by the contradictory exercise of norm and anti-norm in poems. The evolution of modern verse style is a complex cultural phenomenon. Although this evolution shows phrasal characteristic in a certain historical period, on the whole the development trend is convergence of various styles.There are many types of modern verse in the style, but there are three representative ones:free style, modern metrical style and folk song style. Free style verse is rich and varied, focusing on the natural syllables, free rhythm and internal rhyme. In special time backgrounds, it also shows the beauty of fighting. Modern Metrics poetry is of a new poetry school which consciously rescues the demerits of modern verse and highlights the regular language requirements. Aesthetically, it owns the temperate, architectural and traditional Chinese beauty. Folk song style poetry expresses rural life and concerns the fate of farmers. When dealing with the relationship between verse and life, it is close to life and tries tog rasp reality. In expression, it focuses on being smooth and explicit; in language forms, it favors the vernacular language which is for the general publicity by using a national style of Sinicism. Rhyme (able to be recited and remembered) and non-law (no constraints in forms) are the two most prominent aesthetic qualities of the style of folk song style poetry.The occurrences and developments of things all over the world have their own laws, so does the evolution of modern verse styles. The evolution of free verse and metrical poetry shifts a lot, showing the feature of more conflicts and less reconciliation and becoming more and more popular and public. But the generalization of verse styles is very likely to lead to poetic deficiency. Modern verse was produced in the time background when Chinese society demanded an end to the feudal rule and moved towards modern civilization. The inspiration of this epoch-making creation was mainly from the passion for transforming the society. Modern verse has accumulated rich experiences and lessons from style destruction to style reconstruction. It shows concretely in handling following relationships and problems in the construction of modern verse style:the relationship between literature and politics; the confrontation between free verse and metrical poetry; the difference between poetry and prose; the difficulty in finalizing the pattern of modern verse style which is caused by overemphasis on free verse and less attention on metrical poetry.The construction of modern verse style should inherit and carry forward the fine traditions of the classical metrical poetry, while absorb the variety of free verse and learn from advantages of foreign metrical poetry, enriching both kinds of styles and means of expression. In this way, neat poetic beauty and intricate beauty combine well, freely and lively and following certain rules as well. Consequently, on one hand, people's habits of appreciating poetry are considered; on the other hand, the art of modern verse will be improved.