Abstract
An important goal of the New Literature is to reflect the social politics of the age, while lyricism is also an issue for the New Poetry. The debate over the merits of the new and old forms is one of the key issues in the New Culture Movement. Putting the debate into the perspective of the relation between poetry and the age, the paper approaches the issue by examining the differences between the function of lyricism pertaining to the new and old forms of poetry, the reason behind the forms and the influence of the choices on the forms, and it tries to reevaluate the contribution and significance of the poetics based on the old form of Chinese poetry.
First Page
202
Last Page
209
Recommended Citation
Pan, Jianwei. 2015. "Lyricism and the Age: the Debate over the Function of the New and the Old Poetic Forms and Its Significance in the Modern China." Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art 35, (5): pp.202-209. https://tsla.researchcommons.org/journal/vol35/iss5/9
