在"五四"前后北京大学国文系中,黄节以诗学闻名.1918-1935年北京大学国文系课程设置,在中国文学与中国文学史、选修课与必修课、"五四"新文学与旧文学之间形成合理的张力,黄节的诗歌教学在这些课程设置的张力中从探索到成熟和逐渐完善.黄节诗歌教学的起点是"辞",即从笺注入手探明诗心;落点是"义",寓教于诗,旨在济世救国.从1918年讲授《诗学》到1934年秋讲授顾亭林诗,黄节诗歌教学的路径是一致的.
Huang Jie was famous for his verse theory at the Department of Chinese Language and Literature in Peking University around May Fourth Movement. From 1918 to 1935, a reasonable tension existed between Chinese literature and its history, between elective and compulsory courses, between the May 4th new-vernacular literature and classical literature in terms of the curricula at the Department of Chinese Language and Literature in Peking University. His verse theory began from "speech" which exposed the implication of the verse with annotations; and finished with "meaning" which required us to teach between the lines in the verse to serve our national salvation. From teaching the subject of Poetics in 1918 to Gu Tinglin's verse in 1934, Huang's theory and thoughts had always been based on the same tension.