How to understand ancient poetry

Read aloud more often and become recited by heart. Poems should be read aloud repeatedly, and attention should be paid to the division of rhythm in ancient poems. There are two ways to divide the rhythm of ancient poetry reading: one is to divide according to meaning. The common five-character rhythm is the "two-three" style, and the seven-character rhythm is the "four-three" style. The second is divided by syllables. Five-character characters are generally in the "two-two-one" or "two-one-two" style, such as "Jielu/in/renjing", "Youran/jian/nanshan", "Kelu/qingshan/outside" The mountain atmosphere/sunset/beautiful”. The seven words are in the form of "二二一二" or "二二二二一", whichever is not pronounced correctly, such as "天街/小雨/run/suchsu" and "磬/yu龙/为君/死". As for reciting, you must see it with your eyes, mouth, and heart, understand the connection between words, sentences, and paragraphs in each poem, grasp the key words, and read it aloud many times until you can recite it. .

Overall perception of poetry. "Overall perception" means being able to roughly know the meaning of the poem based on the annotations, understand the content of the poem, experience the author's views and feelings, and form a sense of integrity. When reading each poem, you can ask your own questions. For example, in "Under the Cibeigu Mountain" we can ask this question: 1. What scene is written and what emotion is expressed? ②Which verses are the most wonderful? ③What kind of picture does the whole poem show us?

Taste the language of poetry. Generally speaking, appreciating the language of poetry can be carried out from the following three aspects: understanding the meaning of the poem, analyzing the beauty of word choice and sentence making, and appreciating the characteristics of the language. For example, in the two lines of the poem "The tide is flat and the banks are wide, the wind is blowing and the sail is hanging", you can think about it this way: What do these two lines mean? Which words are good to use? What are the characteristics of writing? The beauty of poetic language can also be analyzed from the following aspects: ① express the poet's feelings; ② express a certain situation accurately and vividly; ③ highlight the characteristics of the thing written; ④ render an atmosphere; ⑤ highlight Poetic title; ⑥ form, phonological beauty, etc.

Appreciate the ideological content and artistic conception of poetry. The artistic conception of poetry includes several aspects such as poetic image (the image of the poem), poetic meaning (the artistic conception of the poem), and poetic sentiment (the emotion of the poem). It can be done from the following aspects:

First, we must be good at spreading the wings of association and imagination. There is no poetry without imagination. "The light rain on the street is as moist as crisp, and the color of the grass looks far away but is not there." When we read this poem, we will naturally imagine a picture in our minds of the continuous spring rain in early spring and the grass has just sprouted, and we will also think of spring. Come, "the plan for the year begins with spring", people begin to work in the fields, hoping for a good harvest.

Second, grasp the image and ponder it over and over again.

"Tianjingsha·Autumn Thoughts" uses nine nouns (images) in succession to describe distinctive and interconnected scenery, and uses ingenious artistic conception to form a picture filled with cold atmosphere and gloom. The colorful sunset in the autumn suburbs highlights the hesitant and miserable feelings of wandering wanderers who miss their hometown.

Third, grasp the author’s thoughts and feelings. The understanding and analysis of poetry are inseparable from the grasp of the poet's emotions. Grasping the poet's emotions is the foundation for our appreciation of poetry.