台灣的新詩話，始於日治時期的楊熾昌。詩創作與詩評論雙管齊下，「詩人批評家」楊熾昌的評論文章超越了筆戰格局，以「新詩話體例」佐以「印象式批評」手法，堪稱台灣新詩評論的真正起點。楊熾昌往往是先「摘錄」以表認同，繼而用詩的語言，作主觀的猜想。其間之聯想，通常是跳躍的；甚至同一篇評論文章，也可能在不同的被評論對象間跳躍。本文認為，由楊熾昌首開其端的台灣新詩批評之「新詩話」，在評價表達方法上，與古典詩話其實頗為接近。雖然在部分用語上沿襲日本《詩與詩論》，在評價表達上追隨中國古典詩話，但楊熾昌並不是一個「二流模仿者」。本文所欲強調的，反而是楊熾昌新詩評論中的台灣特色

In Taiwan, the history of new Poetry talks (shi hua) dates back to the period when Taiwan was under Japan's rule. It was first raised by Yang Chi-Chang. Considering both on the poetry creation and the poetry review, poet-critic Yang wrote his new Poetry talks with a viewpoint of Impressionism. It is believed that in Taiwan, Yang is the pioneer working on new Poetry talks. To write his critique, Yang often summarizes a poem at the beginning to show his positive feeling toward it. Then he uses the language of poetry to express his subjective opinion. The ideas in Yang's head aren't coming out step by step; his thoughts are always jumping from one to another. It won't be very surprising to see him talking about A poet at this time but coming to B poet at the next second on the same composition. The author of this thesis believes those new poetry reviews started from Yang are very similar to the classical poetry reviews in the way of their expression of evaluation.Although Yang borrowed part of the language from Japan's ”Poetry & Poetry Criticism” and he followed China's classic poetry criticism in his way of poetry evaluation, he is not an inferior copycat. The thesis is written to emphasize Yang's important features in his reviews for Taiwan modern poetry