Abstract：The issue of evaluating Guo Moruo’s “cognitive device” has been the main reason for the negative evaluation of Guo Moruo’s contemporary poetry. In order to understand Guo Moruo’s contemporary poetry in a more objective and scientific way， we should first abandon the prevalent research framework and introduce his contemporary poetic view of “understanding sympathy”. In this sense， the descension of poetry and the tendency of poets’ de-territorialization embodied in Guo Moruo’s contemporary poetry deserve our attention， which constitute the basic methods and principles of literary practice in the era of the “new people’s literature and art”. Although this method and principle disappeared with the rearrival of the literary aesthetic era， revisiting the historical context and understanding Guo Moruo’s poetry with the perspective of contemporary literature are also of great benefit to understanding history and reality and developing the Guo Moruo studies.
2022, Vol. 61 
