As a statesman,Mao Zedong had another identity:apoet.Under dual role,Mao's poetic theory shows his different ideas and is self-contradictory.Mao's illustration of his ideas can form their own systems.But in the new folk song movement,the poet Mao Zedong's compromise reveals his true thoughts.It shows that the right route for poetic development is to deal exactly with the relationships between literature and politics.