If you want to write a modern poem, you must first know what a poem is.
If someone asks me, what is a poem? I really can't say, although I know what kind of words are poems and what kind of words are not poems.
Broadly speaking, poetry has no definition. But if we must sum up the poem, to put it simply: all simple, affectionate and beautiful words are poems, that is, words and images are highly concise+heart moves with emotion+things sketch = poem. Poetry language does not have to be beautifully written, sometimes it needs a certain degree of extravagance, but it must be affectionate, that is to say, to speak is poetry.
So, what is modern poetry?
Modern poetry, also known as vernacular poetry, originated in the late Qing Dynasty and prevailed after the May 4th Movement. Like China's modern society, it is deeply influenced by foreign cultures and advocates symbols, stream of consciousness and surrealism. Compared with classical poetry, although they are all written for feelings, they are generally not bound by format and rhythm. The form is more unrestrained and free, and the meaning is richer. The management of images is often more important than the use of rhetoric, which completely breaks through the characteristics of "gentle and sincere, mourning without complaining" in ancient poetry, and emphasizes the communication between free, open and straightforward sentences and "feeling and invisibility". China's modern poetry is divided into two relatively independent stages: China's modern poetry before the founding of New China and China's contemporary poetry after the founding of New China.
There are many ways to express the classification of modern poetry. According to the form, it can be divided into free verse and metrical verse. At present, the former dominates, but the author is more optimistic about the latter. According to genre, it can be divided into fairy tale poems, fable poems, prose poems and verse poems. According to the way of expression, it can be divided into narrative poetry, reasoning poetry and lyric poetry, the latter is the main theme at present; If divided by length, it can be divided into micro-poems, short poems, short poems and long poems. As for these categories, there is no doubt in the critics, but the author thinks that this classification is too general and should be further refined, that is, adding Chinese poems and giant poems.
First of all, let's talk about poems. At present, it is generally believed that within ten lines, about a hundred words are small poems. It came into being after the May 4th Movement, roughly between1921-1925, and was influenced by the Indian poet Tagore's Birds. Representative figures are Bing Xin and Zong Baihua, and representative poetry collections are Stars, Spring Water and Walking Clouds.
Contemporary short poems originated from China's short poems. It is generally believed that the number of words within three lines is limited to 30. Their characteristics are short and pithy, and they often win with a philosophical sentence. Macroscopically, micro-poems are subordinate to short poems, and both of them are subordinate to short poems.
The standards of short poems are different. Poetry magazines and websites have their own standards, and generally prefer short poems within twenty or thirty lines. But no matter from which point of view, the definition of short poems is no more than 30 lines.
In the past, the setting of long poems was generally based on forty behavior standards-that is, more than forty lines were long poems. However, in the context of modern Chinese, images are rich, vocabulary is developed, and the poet's feelings are like waves. This standard is too broad, which makes long poems easy to flood and affects the charm and development of long poems as a poetic style. As we all know, the length of novels is often limited to 10,000 words, short stories to 10,000 words, novellas to 100,000 words, and the minimum standard for novels is more than 100,000 words. Although poetry is not a novel, the excessive proliferation of long poems is obviously not good for poetry creation. In view of this, the author needs to introduce the concept of China's poems here, and build a bridge between short poems and long poems, so that they can be clearly distinguished.
The author believes that Chinese poetry is a natural definition between short poems and long poems, which plays a role of cohesion and transition, and its ideal length should be more than 30 lines 100 lines. 100 lines or more can be called a long poem, which gives it its due status and difficulty in creation. It's like giving a title in the army. In order to limit the number of generals, we entered the rank of senior colonel or brigadier general.
Epic masterpieces with more than 1000 lines can be called masterpieces, which are basically narrative poems. Lyrics with more than 100 lines are rare in human history. In ancient times, such as Homer's epic, Indian Kyle Poloma and Ramayana, as well as China's Tibetan epic King Gelsall, Goethe's Faust, Byron's Don Juan and Pushkin's yevgeni onegin.
Having finished the classification of modern poetry, let's talk about the writing basis of modern poetry. Modern poetry has three basic elements, namely language, artistic conception and rhythm. Speak the language first.
Language comes from life, and art is higher than life. Poetry, as a language art, must be higher than life. Conciseness is a virtue of poetry. Highly concise vocabulary and vivid expression can make your poems more concise and vivid.
Artistic conception is the soul of poetry, the blend of human feelings and scenery, and the sublimation and induction of many images in poetry. Strictly speaking, it belongs to both artistic and philosophical categories, and it is the most difficult to master in poetry. Only by reading more books and improving your artistic accomplishment can you write excellent poems with beautiful artistic conception and lofty realm.
Finally, talk about the rhythm. In my opinion, poetry is a rhyming text, which has always been the case. The so-called free body without rhythm once made the author scoff and think it was a fake poem. However, in the context of modern vernacular Chinese, we don't have to be too rigid in the flatness of meter and rhyme, and we don't have to put too much emphasis on suppressing rhyme. Today's training is very different from the ancient context. Coupled with the role of local tone, even tones have disappeared in modern poetry, but we still have to rhyme. Generally, rhymes are commonly used. We can download thirteen or six rhymes to browse and learn. As long as you seriously understand and strive for it, rhyme is not difficult to suppress. When the single rhyme is difficult to control, you can change the rhyme in time, otherwise you can bet on a wide rhyme, that is, two similar rhymes are mixed together, such as FAW and Gusu, Renchen and Middle East, and then you can say Yan Qian and Jiangyang.
I hope I can help you. Thank you. I hope it will be adopted.