A Research On The Poetic Composing Group Of The Crescent Monthly, The Poetry Quarterly And Its Modernism Characters

Nowadays, Most of the study on "the New Moon Poetry School" has been limited in the establish category, with special attention attached to the proposition of "New Metrical Poetry", "Three Principles of Beauty" in particular, while this poetic composing group's theory developing during the periods of the Poem Weekly, the Crescent Monthly, and the Poetry Quarterly as well as the modernities of their works are unfortunately ignored. Actually, this group never declared itself to be a school,as it also included some other modern poets except this so-called "New Moon School" after the Poem Weekly,has ceased to appear, while obvious group characteristics in literary accomplishment, artistic purport, poetry proposition and composing are shown among these poets. To respect the history, this article comes up with an idea to use the name of "The Poetic Composing Group of the Crescent Monthly and the Poetry Quarterly",different from the name of "the New Moon School",which was consistently used in the history of literature.This poetic composing group has been engaged in the conscious pursuit of the modernities of Chinese Modern Verse when transforming tradition and drawing on Western Poetry. The modernities should not only be reflected in the poetic conception, which is to weaken utilitarian, highlight rationally expressing emotions, bring in modern concepts, and remold traditional poetic images, but also in the poetic art, which is to advocate composing "New Metrical Verse", try dialects or colloquial style, and explore a novelized and dramatic way of composing poems.Besides, this group's works also show kind of collective modernistic orientation, especially in its steady standpoint on the "Pure Poetry", its engagement in composing intellectual poems, and the exploration of modern urban subjects, on which the efforts are previous to the modernists recognized by the literature history, providing qutie a few resemblances between the two. Therefore, the true artistic value of this poetic composing group is to be evaluated again.