【正文】 ion. Introduction to New PoetryIt is well known that Chinese classical poetry has a long history and has a glory of achievement. However, since the 19th century, the creation of classical poetry gradually went rigid and the Parnassus was filled with old shibboleths. Written words adopted by classical poetry went adrift from that of everyday use. Limitations on forms and very limited space were severe bondage for people to manifest the increasingly sophisticated social life and feelings. Therefore, with the advent of the May Fourth New Culture Movement and the penetration of advanced Western culture, a fresh poetic form that was totally independent of archaic poetry called “vernacular poems” thus came into being. It was, with no doubt, an epochmaking practice with an unprecedented new life, it straightly faced a tremendous glory in the history! It was thus the origin of modern verse and the reason for the name “modern verse”.Modern verse is different from classical poetry. Classical poetry is often rhymed and some need to have level and oblique tone and antithesis. Whereas modern verse is free from rhythm, level and oblique tone and antithesis. It only needs refined imagoes and its way of creating is quite free. In the embryonic period, to free from the shackles of classical poetry in form, it advocated to use plain language and sayings in poetry and use the expression of poets’ real feelings as the primary coverage. Therefore, modern poetry was then also called “vernacular poems”. On February 6, 1917, the “New Youth” Vol. 2 published 8 vernacular poems of Hu Shi, which was the mother batch of modern poetry in Chinese New Poetry Movement. Hu’s “Attempt Collection” (1920) is the first poetry anthology that is written vernacularly.With the birth of modern verse, a batch of outstanding overseas students introduced free verse to China, for the purpose of freeing Chinese poetry from the already rigescent preTang poetry as soon as possible. Many poets were inspired by modern verse. And GuoMoruo was not only inspired by Whitman39。s romantic poetry, but was the first one to translate Whitman39。s poetry into Chinese. And Guo’s Goddess（1921）is the first poem showing a fresh appearance in both inward and artistic side. Besides, it made a significant contribution to establish the position of modern verse.An important motive for the occurrence and the explosion of the new poetry movement is that, it forwardly accepted the influence of poetry in foreign countries, basing on absorbing the art of traditional poetry. The exploration of numerous poets and creations of some outstanding poets made it possible for modern poetry to be mature and diversified. Since the May Fourth Movement, modern poetry has bee the main part of Modern Chinese Poetry. Some of the Chinese poets were more or less directly inspired and stimulated by the western ancient and modern poetry. Zhu Ziqing said that the greatest impact for the generation of modern poetry is from foreign countries, which corresponded with the reality. It was almost impossible for modern poetry to flourish and diversify without the extreme exoteric characteristic in culture during the May Fourth Movement and thirstily absorbing the nutrition of foreign poetry. 2. Literature Review on Whitman’s Free VerseThe middle of the nineteenth Century, Walt Whitman used free verse as the main genre to creation Leaves of Grass”. From leaves of grass set published, Whitman received criticism and by a chorus of cynics out there. Walt Whitman’s free verse breaks through the harsh English poetry’s traditional forms, and creates a genre of poetry with no grid, no law, no rhyme, the structure is free, flexible and praises of ordinary life and ideal. With the book Leaves of Grass publication, it also got a highly controversial at the time. The London Review News from the perspective of the art reported the poetry of Whitman’s free verse that“Whitman’s free verse poetry have against the art of traditional poetry. Boston’s correspondents criticize Whitman39。s free verse that is pompous, arrogant, vulgar and boring.” In the field of the United States literary studies, the Professor of New York University Gaia Wilson Allen is mitted to Whitman studies over half a century. His achievement was remarkable. Professor Allen had used the theory of literary creation to research Whitman39。s life experiences and his poetry writing style that obtained: It should be divided Whitman’s life experiences and his poetry style into two sides to treat them, this two are pretty but not the same. Whitman’s free verse has a farreaching in foreign country. Denmark scholar F. Sharansky Berg used Danish to book Whitman”. In this book the author from the view of psychological point to explore Whitman since 1855 to his later years in the changes of Whitman’s creation psychological. In China, the earliest text of Whitman’s presentation had seen in a long article of Tian Han’s long article of The civilians poet Whitman hundred years memory .It referred to Whitman’s free verse influence Chinese new Poetry. The scholar ChangXu, was published the thesis in the Chuxiong Normal University paper in 1988 named he found a“ crater”. The scholar is in the view of the creation to examine how Whitman impact GuoMoruo in his creation. He point out several aspects: Firstly, the poet has a good feeling to himself。 secondly, the poet has a strong selfexpression。 last, the uninhibited form of the verse. The first generation of vernacular poet Liu Yanling used the method of parallel research to illustrate Whitman39。s free verse influence Chinese new poetry and got the result that: The free verse have broken the shackling of classical poetry, to extinguish the old spirit and kindled a new spirit. The results of this study were as same as our Chinese poetry which break the tradition and show the individuality at that time. In short, the scholars both at home and abroad as well