闻一多批判地继承了古代"诗缘情"理论,指出人类的一切情感都是诗歌表现的范围,认为"哀艳"是诗歌情感的基调。他对"情"进行层级分析,指出不包含理性判断的男女之情是诗歌中最高最真的情感。闻一多反对专凭灵感作诗,主张在创作中"节情"。把文学当成神圣的理想和事业用心经营是闻一多"诗缘情"理论的基础。闻一多的"诗缘情"为新诗向诗的回归指出了一条道路,是我国现代诗论的一个组成部分,也是我国古代文论向现代转化的一次成功实践。

In China, the theory "Poems endued with feeling" is a consistent thread running through the literature history. But ancient literary critiques have not given a clear interpretation on the definition of "feeling". Wen Yi-duo thought it involves emotion and sentiment. Sentiment is second-class feeling. He objects to describing sentimental feeling in poems. Wen Yi-duo asks poets not to write when their feelings are in climax. Wen YiDuo not only inherits the ancient poetry theory but also develops it. He proposes a perspective of New Poetry's return to real poetry.