Abstract: Mu Dan's poems, describing the experience of individual survivors, were different from others in the chorus of national revolutionary war.Compared with the mainstream literature thought, which followed a mode of revolutionary classicalism-collective logos-survival or death of the nation-lofty singing, Mu dan's poems were of the mode of modernism-individual experience-significance of survival-painful torture.His modernism was embodied in his denial to war, to reality, and to the capitalized self as well as in his ultimate pursuit of the significance of life.Mu succeeded the national criticism ideology and surpassed didacticism, whose poems gave deep moans of the soul in the storm of national revolutionary war.Isolated, weak, and disharmonious with the thematic revolutionary classicalism as his poems were, they still held an important position in history.

Key words: Mu Dan, modernism