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The Artistic Characteristics and Historical Responsibility of “Silk Road Poetry” During the War of Resistance



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SHENG Xuelian, ZHOU Xiaoyu, WANG Jing

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DOI:10.17265/2328-2177/2026.03.007

Hexi University, Zhangye, China

During the War of Resistance, Northwest poetry, influenced by the May Fourth New Literature tradition, exhibited a distinct spirit of “enlightenment” and “struggle”. Poets inherited the realist tradition, using poetry as a weapon to expose the atrocities of the enemy and puppet forces, awaken public consciousness, and call for national salvation. At the same time, they made significant progress in the direction of “nationalization and popularization”, creating poems that were sincerely emotional and uplifting in style, reflecting both the lives and struggles of borderland people and the belief in the inevitable victory of the war of resistance and the revolutionary ideals of the proletariat. Northwest poetry, in its specific historical context, fulfilled the practical functions of serving the war through literature and educating the people, provided valuable experience for the popularization of new poetry, and established the unique poetic charm of Northwest poetry, demonstrating its sense of responsibility to the era.

Silk Road, poetry, era, popularization, enlightenment