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Gu Fang
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DOI:10.17265/2328-2177/2026.10.007
Zhejiang Yuexiu University, Zhejiang, China
The Crescent Moon School has long been defined as the “New Metrical Poetry,” thus obscuring its modernist trajectory. Tracing the thread of the “awareness of the significance of form,” this paper examines the school’s evolution from romanticism to modernism: from the eastward transmission of Euro-American formalism and Bloomsbury Group’s formalist poetics to establishing the ontological form of new metrical poetry; from lyricism shifting from “unrestrained emotional outpouring” to “aesthetic emotional discipline”; from the depiction of physical objects through images to the adoption of “objective correlatives,” and from the reconstruction of the lyrical subject into an impersonal formal function, to the dialectical evolution of “pure poetry,” and “prosaic style.” Ultimately, this process culminated in its indigenized adaptation: replacing the foot with the pause, connecting symbolism through implicit suggestion, and integrating dramatization into artistic conception. The school thereby accomplished the modernist turn of vernacular new poetry in the two dimensions of poetic sentiment and poetic craft.
awareness of the significance of form, Crescent Moon School, Bloomsbury Group, localized transformation
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