The Core-Style Poem: A New Form for a New Era

Lawrence K. Wang 王抗曝 (2026). "The Core-Style Poem: A New Form for a New Era", "Global Humanities and Liberal Arts" , Volume 2026, Number 1F, January 6, 2026, 2026 (1F), 10 pages, Lenox Institute Press, Auburndale, MA, USA. ..........ABSTRACT: This paper introduces the Core-Style Poem, a new literary form designed to meet the intellectual and spiritual demands of the 21st century. In an era of complexity and misinformation, traditional poetic forms often lack the structural rigor for precise logical inquiry. The Core-Style Poem addresses this gap by marrying the elegance of poetry with the discipline of dialectical reasoning. Its structure is defined by two pillars: a single, repeated "Core Character" that provides thematic unity, and a "Dialectical Pattern" of "Not X, but Y" that transforms each stanza into a logical argument. This paper presents the four formal rules of the Core-Style Poem and analyzes two original works—one exploring the macrocosm of human civilization and another the microcosm of individual growth—to demonstrate the form's versatility as a universal tool for philosophical exploration...........KEYWORDS: Core-Style Poem, Dialectical Poetry, Literary Innovation, Modern Chinese Literature, Fu Poetry (賦), Poetic Form, Philosophy of Language.