新时期以来,作为“九叶诗人”的郑敏,在诗歌理论与批评方面也颇有建树。在诗歌发生论方面,她强调意识与无意识之间的对话;在诗歌接受论方面,她提出要培养读者的“结构感”;在中国新诗史论方面,她以语言作为切入点,追溯了新诗的诞生和发展,探讨了新诗语言方面所存在的问题;在写作主体论方面,她强调诗人的“诚”与历史感。 Since the new period, Zheng Min, as a “Nine-Leaf Poet”, has also made considerable achievements in the theory and criticism of poetry. In terms of the theory of poetry, she emphasizes the dialogue between consciousness and unconsciousness. In poetry acceptance theory, she proposes to cultivate the reader’s “sense of structure”. In the history of Chinese new poetry, she takes language as the starting point and traced back The birth and development of new poetry, the problems existing in the language of new poetry; and the writing subject theory, she emphasizes poet ’s honesty and sense of history.