The Research To The Folk Characteristics Of May Fourth Modern Chinese Poetry

May Fourth Modern Chinese Poetry played as an important role in the trend of the times as the pioneer of the revolution in Modern Chinese Literature. It came into contact with the folk very well and showed distinct folk characteristics because of the internal and external factors of the poetry. The paper includes three chapters besides introduction and conclusion.Chapter One researches the reason May Fourth Modern Chinese Poetry contain folk characteristics through the enlightenment and construction of poetry. The enlightenment is the theme of May Fourth Modern Chinese Literature, the folk language which is popular, plain, easy to understand and the folk artistic form which is delighted to hear and see both Satisfy the requirements from populace who are about poetry, are good for propagandizing enlightenment ideas and are internal need of developing Modern Chinese Poetry. Chapter Two interprets the folk characteristics of May Fourth Modern Chinese Poetry through the dominant and recessive of it. May Fourth Modern Chinese Poetry not only show distinct folk characteristics on theme, language, artistic form ,the spirit of poetry and so on in classic texts, but also contain far—reaching potential folk connotation. It not only makes clear to all the role transformation of modern Chinese intellectuals, the establishment of the readership of Modern Chinese Poetry, but also display May Fourth intellectuals′national complex that they will make Chinese Poetry glorious again. Through the folk characteristics we can draw the conclusion that on the one hand, there is internal contact between Modern Chinese Poetry and Classic Chinese Poetry, on the other hand, Modern Chinese Poetry isn't imported goods completely, it is from the blending between oriental and western poetry. Chapter Three expounds the meaning of folk characteristics of May Fourth Modern Chinese Poetry. The folk characteristics makes May Fourth Modern Chinese Poetry develop well, but it brings some negative influence at the same time, in addition, it brings lots of important enlightenment: there is no conflict for Modern Chinese Poetry which is contact with folk and is modernization, there are both opposition and commonality between folk characteristics and modernity. It will be helpful to construct the modernity of Modern Chinese Poetry and modernize Modern Chinese Poetry to make use of folk resource correctly, or it will be helpless, even harmful.Although the folk characteristics isn't main characteristics of May Fourth Modern Chinese Poetry, it plays an important part for finishing the historic mission of May Fourth Modern Chinese Poetry and is much more influential for the development of Modern Chinese Poetry later.