关键词: 散文诗, 新诗, 现代诗意, 语言形式

Abstract: “Literature” in the modern sense is fundamentally defined by its modernity. As a literary genre within modern literature, New Poetry must therefore have modern poeticity as one of its defining stylistic features—the poeticity that is rooted in and manifested through modern linguistic forms. As a modern poetic genre, the language of New Poetry is inherently a prose-inflected form. While this linguistic form may manifest externally as line breaks, line breaks cannot conversely be treated as the sole criterion for judging the generic identity of New Poetry. It follows that a number of works commonly categorized as “prose poetry” are in fact modern poetry. For Baudelaire, prose poetry was championed as a freer form better suited to articulating modern poeticity; likewise in China, it initially became synonymous with New Poetry for its radical formal transgression. The crux of this lies in the fact that it is a poetic genre that conveys modern poeticity through modern linguistic forms; or to put it more precisely, the term “prose” serves to characterize the modern attributes of the linguistic medium of New Poetry.

Key words: prose poetry, New Poetry, modern poeticity, linguistic form