Ancient Poetry
1. Lyricity is the most basic characteristic of poetry. Poetry always expresses strong emotions. The words are the voice of the heart, and the poems are caused by true feelings and are naturally revealed.
2. Poetry typically reflects life through images. The emotions of poetry can often be gathered and contained in artistic images. Compared with other literary works, poetry reflects life in a more concentrated and typical way.
3. Express thoughts and feelings through artistic conception. The objects and scenery created by the poet are no longer exactly the same as the appearance of life, but a fusion of the poet's subjective color scenery and objects. It is the condensation of the poet's unique feelings, thoughts and emotions, and also the expression of the poet's temperament and personality. Moreover, the purpose of writing scenes is to express emotions. Scenery and emotion are inseparable. There is often scenery within the emotion and emotion within the scenery. Infinite harmony is the realm pursued by poets.
4. Classical poetry is characterized by conciseness and implicitness. The language of poetry is actually a special and mysterious symbol system, which not only contains an abstract and systematic rational implication, but also contains emotional beauty. Ancient Chinese poetry is best at expressing the richest content and thoughts in the least language. This is the extremely refined feature of ancient poetry.
Refinedness and subtlety are always related. However, refinement does not mean implicitness, and expressing one's heart directly does not count as implicitness. Poetry language that does not directly express emotions mostly expresses semantic meaning through metaphors, synaesthesia, puns, allusions, symbols, etc., thus making people feel implicit and hazy.
5. Ancient poetry has musical beauty. Some ancient poems were originally sung to music.
The musical beauty of ancient poetry is even more reflected in its language. If language has the rules of rhythmic beauty, it will undoubtedly increase the beauty of poetry. Among them, the rhythm of quatrains and rhymed poetry is roughly the same, that is, the number of words is certain, the number of sentences is certain, the rhythm has a fixed format, and the general principle is to rhyme. Poetry uses this language factor in this way, starting from various aspects, for example, paying attention to the neatness of the sentence structure or Change, pay attention to rhythm and contrast, pay attention to level and rhyme, thus forming a kind of rhythm and rhythmic beauty.
Modern poetry:
It is gradually developed and formed on the basis of inheriting and carrying forward the excellent traditions of folk songs and Chinese classical poetry, and drawing on and absorbing the expression forms and expression techniques of Western poetry. It has the characteristics of free form, flexible rhythm, natural and fresh. The new poem adopts its own unique language expression ("poet's language"), which is highly concise, jumps sharply, and is full of suggestiveness. When reading and appreciating modern poetry, one must grasp its language characteristics, start by interpreting the language of poetry, and then explore the meaning and ideological connotation of poetry.
Modern poetry breaks through the metrical constraints of old-style poetry, and its language tends to be colloquial and prose. The distance between its language and prose is shortened, but it still has its own characteristics.
First, the word order is inverted. Poets often adjust the word order in order to strengthen a certain emotion, or due to the needs of rhyme, rhythm and line breaks.
Second, the ingredients are omitted. In daily expressions, the components of a sentence cannot be omitted arbitrarily, and the necessary components must be clearly explained. In poetry, in order to make the expression more concise and concise, and to make the verses tougher and more solid, some elements are often omitted, allowing readers to appreciate and fill in the gaps in the verses.
Third, the part of speech changes. It is a very common phenomenon in poetry to temporarily change the part of speech to express the need for expression.