本文嘗試追索馬華文學的詩意，自文學史的開端以迄當代。戰前，戰後，馬來亞建國，馬來西亞成立，詩的國籍與詩意的政治，詩的可能性與詩意的自毀，反詩意，詩與歌，與民族的吶喊。這不只涉及馬華新詩的處境，也涉及它的可能性。馬華新詩的可能性究竟在哪裡？本文嘗試沿著歷史脈絡做一番初步的探討。

This essay tries to trace the poetic sentiment in Malaysian Chinese poetry, from the beginning of Malaysian Chinese literary history to World War II: before and after the world war, nation-building of Malaya, the making of Malaysia. The subject mostly include: the nationality of poetry, the politics of poetic sentiment, the possibility of poetry, the self-destroy of the poetic sentiment, anti-poeticity, poetry and song, battle cry of the nation. What's the possibility of Malaysian Chinese Modern poetry? This essay tries to investigate it through the history context.