在新诗歌发展的道路上,新民歌无疑地应当成为主流,应当成为新诗歌发展的基础。民歌,既然是广大劳动人民所熟悉的和喜闻乐见的艺术形式,又与我们传统诗歌的表现方式相衔接;因此,不谈民族形式则已,要想建立具有民族气派又为广大人民所喜爱的新诗歌,就一定要重视新民歌,发展新民歌,向新民歌吸取养分,并且应当把新民歌作为新诗歌发展的基础。拋开劳动人民所喜闻乐见的民歌,妄图创立什么‘新格律诗,或者‘现代格律詩’,是办不到的。近年来,我们曾拜读过一些毫无民族气味的‘格律诗’。在这些‘格律诗’里,不仅思想感情上同劳动人民格格不入,同时 On the road to the development of new poetry, the new folk song should undoubtedly become the mainstream and should become the basis for the development of new poetry. Since folk songs are the familiar and loved art form familiar to the majority of working people and with the way we express our traditional poetry, we must establish a nation-style and a new favorite for the broad masses of the people Poetry, we must attach importance to new folk songs, develop new folk songs, absorb nutrients to new folk songs, and new folk songs should be the basis for the development of new poetry. It is impossible not to set aside any new ballad poems or ’modern metrical poems’ set aside by folk songs loved by the working people. In recent years, we have read some “metrical poems” that have no national flavor. In these ’metrical poems’, not only are emotions alien to working people, at the same time