聂绀弩开始是以写杂文、小说和新诗为主的,晚年却成了旧体诗名家,在上世纪末曾经引起过聂绀弩旧体诗热,其拥有不少粉丝。他写旧体诗是从到北大荒劳动时才开始的,在此之前他是反对写旧体诗的。起因据他自己说是“1959年某月,我在北大荒八五·农场第五队劳动,一天夜晚,正准备睡觉了,指导员忽然来宣布,要每人都做诗,说是上级指示,全国一样,无论什么人都要做诗。”从这以后他就不断地大写特写,劳动改造时写,监狱中写,释放回家后 Nie Gan crossbow began to write essays, novels and new poetry based, but later became a master of old-style poetry, at the end of the last century has caused Nie Ganruo old poetic hot, which has a lot of fans. He started writing old-style poetry from the Great Wilderness to the Great Northern Wilderness, and before that he was opposed to writing old-style poems. The cause is what he said was “In a month 1959, I was working in the Fifth Team of the Northern Wilderness Farm on August 5, and one night was preparing to sleep. The instructor suddenly announced that everyone should make a poem saying that it was a superior instruction , No matter what the people in the country should do poetry. ”" From then on, he wrote ceaselessly in uppercase, wrote in labor reform, wrote in prison, and released it after returning home