Lai Ho's creation of new poetry started in 1925, and often contains themes of direct conflict between colonists and local Taiwanese people. A history of an individual poet's spirituality may transform into a history of the spirituality of a generation or even mankind in general. During the period when Taiwan was under Japanese rule, Lai Ho often based his poetry on materials related to politics and news events. In addition to presenting the events, characteristics such as skeptical thinking, artistic technique, nationalism and belief in resistance would be transformed into a proactive cry of injustice. This paper takes four narrative poems as examples to explore Lai Ho's nationalism, comparing them laterally with other new poetry texts from the period of Japanese governance, and vertically with new poetry texts that described politics and news events in the 1980s. We discuss the national consciousness and distinctive value of these poems in terms of the history of new poetry in Taiwan.