In her early years as a writer, Su Xue-lin was famous in the modern Chinese literary community for her works Lu Tian and Ji Xin, which can be categorized as part of her modern literary creation. As to her classical literary works, Su published a collection of poems entitled Teng-Chien-Shi-Tsao, literally meaning Writing Poems in front of the Lamp, and a number of poems scattered occasionally in her diary and newspapers. Teng-Chien-Shi-Tsao was composed at the juncture between the late Qing dynasty and the early years of the Republic. Being a writer who went through the May Fourth Movement, Su once remarked on her own work, ”All the poems I have composed are not good enough for people to read,” and subsequently came up with her criticism of modern poetry. This paper explores how Su Xue-lin accepted and rejected classical/modern poetry based on her classical poetry composition and modern poetry criticism, which can be seen as her concrete actions in response to the transition from the old to the modern age.