Abstract: There is a tendency of anti-metaphor in Chinese and foreign poetry in the second part of the 20th century. Anti-metaphor is the natural result of the influence of the post-modern art conceptions in the west world，it is tired of the language wisdom in poetry and opposed to high modernism.Domestic anti-metaphor begins in the revolt of linguistic homogenization in misty poetry and opposes aesthetic fatigue of metaphor and the ideographic routines. They have a lot in common，for example，which both reject metaphor and relevant rhetorical skills and turn to more colloquial and living details in the linguistic style. Anti-metaphor argues against the technological hegemony of metaphor and old poetic style in essence. The metaphorical feature of language can’t be changed by anti-metaphor，which signifies the broad sense of metaphor such as metonymy in linguistics. The metaphor in poetry is impossible to be refused. The experiment of anti-metaphor writing is helpful to probe into new possibilities of metaphor in modern poetry that we should pay more attention to.

Key words: metaphor, anti-metaphor, contemporary poetry, modern poetry, linguistics