Wen Yiduo 
Red Candle Dead Water 

Red Candle was published in 1923. It is a well-known poetry collection of modern Chinese literature and Wen Yiduo”s first collection of poems, including 62 poems. His poems express the poet”s patriotism, criticize the darkness under feudal rule, or reflect the suffering of the working people, or depict the beauty of nature. The idea is exquisite, the imagination is novel, and the language image is vivid. Dead Water was published in 1928. It is Wen Yiduo”s second collection of poems. It contains 28 new poems written after the collection of poems Red Candle. They are more mature in terms of depth of thought, breadth of themes, and expression methods, expressing the sadness of China”s poverty, backwardness, and turmoil. The collection of poems runs through the broad and profound patriotic feelings. Wen Yiduo”s collection of poems was selected into the biography recommended by the Ministry of Education.