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.