邵洵美作为中国现代文学史上少有的唯美颓废派诗人，受到了英国唯美–颓废主义集大成者奥斯卡？王尔德的巨大影响。他不仅在生活方式上模仿王尔德的唯美主义浪荡子做派，在诗歌创作中也极力模仿王尔德代表作《莎乐美》中的唯美–颓废主义风格。然而，在20世纪二三十年代内忧外患的中国语境下，邵洵美不可能传达出唯美–颓废主义美学现代性的本质，而只能是一种想象、模仿和暧昧的现代性。
Being a rare aesthetic-decadent poet in modern Chinese literature, Shao Xunmei was deeply in-fluenced by Oscar Wilde, the epitome of Aestheticism and Decadence in Britain. Shao imitated not only the aesthetic dandyism of Wilde in life style but also the aestheticism and decadence in Wilde’s Salomé in poem writing. However, in the context of domestic strife and foreign aggression during 1920-30s in China, it was difficult and impossible to convey the real nature of aesthetic modernity of Aestheticism and Decadence. The “modernity” Shao was trying to express in his poems was only imaginary, mimic and ambiguous.
