The Value of Li Jinfa's Poetry

Li Jinfa is a name that few people know. Nevertheless, he played a considerable role in the development of China's modern poetry. Li Jinfa first introduced symbolism into China's poems, and he was good at expressing his subjective feelings with symbolic images, which had a positive impact on the diversification of the forms and styles of modern new poetry in China.

Li Jinfa's poems are good at using metaphors and personification to express complex and subtle situations. These techniques are different from other new poems. They widen the distance between aesthetic images and broaden the world of thinking and imagination, which is a beneficial attempt to construct lyric art of new poetry. However, Li Jinfa's poetry is deeply influenced by western aestheticism, and decadence and mystery, obscurity and obscurity, sentimentality and pathos are intertwined in his poetry style. Sometimes some poems are too obscure to understand and lose their aesthetic value.