New media represented by network began to make the original Chinese literature change at express mechanism and the way of life, etc As one of the pioneers, network poetry continuously attracts much attention from all parties since the date of its birth for its special characteristics different from traditional poetry The former research always emphasizes the aspects such as its transmission mode, its cultural traits, and its subversion of traditional poetry Network poetry itself is focused on in this paper First, its identity is defined By the definition of network literature, the legitimacy of network poetry as a kind of poetry is confirmed, and meanwhile, network poetry is divided into three parts, that is, poetry of upload after electronic processing from paper text, poetry of original and first issued on the Internet, and hypertext poetry, and then the three parts are interpreted respectively External style and internal poetic flavor are deeply analyzed from the perspectives of broad sense and narrow sense The language features of network poetry such as colloquial style and sarcasm are demonstrated, trying to restore its nature