This essay focuses on new female images in early modern Chinese poetry. As the May Forth movement evolved into the New Cultural Movement. women`s liberation was regarded as a necessary condition for the foundation of a modernized country. There appeared lots of discourses on practical ways to emancipate women from the fetters of feudal morals. Of discourses on women`s liberation, "love" and "motherliness" draw a great attention from the intellectuals including poets. "Love" and "motherliness" developed by the Western feminists such as Ellen Kay and Emma Goldman, came to influence on contemporary Chinese poetry. It is because that the 5.4 era saw the rise of love poetry and motherly love poetry in which "new" female images were created. "Lover" and "loving mother" are the new female images which are almost never seen in traditional Chinese poetry.