Short Message Poets

SMS, as a new media, has a profound influence on modern people's spiritual development orientation as well as their various cultural activities, which leads the intermarriage between literature and SMS. It is suggested that the most appropriate genre SMS employs, from whatever literary reality or literary theory, is poetry. Recently, mobile phone this powerful media rapidly leads the new wave of poem writing aggressively. Consequently, SMS poetry—-written by mobile phone, communicated in the form of SMS, and read among mobile phone subscribers—such a creative poetic forms is born. The modern urban city as the humanistic and geographic environmental where helds the trends of post-contemporary thoughts has social and cultural influence on the living space of SMS poetry. Using short and concise type of poetry, SMS poetry keeps the record of instant experience, inspiration and sight, making it gain the diverse nature of poetry and profoundly and multilevel aesthetic connotation. Specifically, there are mainly three types of SMS poetry: beta SMS poetry, pastiche antique SMS poetry, SMS prose poem. Beta SMS poetry, which is characterized by its refining language, delicate form and exquisite implications, is the major type. Being as the replication of Chinese classical poetry, the pastiche antique SMS poetry absorbs tradition and imitates and writes through postmodernism techniques charactherized by pastiche and mixture.SMS prose poem, which represents the spirit of freedom in folklore completely, is one of the best SMS. SMS poetry is signalled by its strong emotion, ntellectual witty, eal monologue, musical mellowed, pungent irony, pretty pray, acile intertextuality, imple narrative and free interaction.The aesthetic connotations such as trivialness andvulgarity, grace and sublimity, clarity and freedom, reflect the inner profound thoughts and vivid emotion in people now. The connotation colors refracted by them are from simplicity to brightness to deepness, which bings profoundly and newly aesthetic pleasure to people who like sending SMS. Being as a growing folk poetry in metropoli of present, SMS poetry shows its important value in theory of literature and art, social culture, humanistic spirit, and reconstruction of poetry. Certainly, SMS can be written freely, whenever and wherever you like and popular, such features cause fragmental, contradictory and cynical writing and leads to a great number of 'vague poems', 'saliva poetiy' and 'spam poetry' wandering among mobile phones which are 'poetry bubbles' without poetic sentiment.It is requred that the quality of SMS poetry should be improved, and keeping poetic sentiment is the soul poetry consistently pursues.