Lu Xun: Selected Poems

Lu Xun's poems combine revolutionary political content with subtle artistry. Employing metaphor, symbolism and satire, Lu Xun's poems make a strong impact on their readers. Not many of Lu Xun's poems survive. The forty-seven in this selection include the majority of them. His later pieces in particular exposed the role of imperialism and the Chiang Kai-Shek government, expressed sympathy for the sufferings of the masses and praised the revolutionary cause of the proletariat. They bear the imprint of the stirring years of the 1920s and 1930s and reveal the course of this intellectual development in those years.