"The Rhythm of Poetry" is the most important article in Mr. Wen Yiduo's series of poetry essays. In this paper, he systematically proposed that "the strength of poetry not only includes the beauty of music (syllables), The beauty of painting (words), and the beauty of architecture (the symmetry of stanzas and the uniformity of sentences)." This proposition about the "three beauties" of new poetry became the theoretical program of the New Metrical Poetry School.
Mr. Wen Yiduo believes that the musical beauty of poetry is the most important thing. He vigorously promotes rhythm, claiming that "the reason why poetry can stimulate emotions lies entirely in its rhythm; rhythm is rhythm... The more courageous a writer is, the more he must wear Dancing with shackles is the only way to dance happily and dance well. Only those who can't dance will blame the shackles for getting in the way, and only those who can't write poetry will feel the constraints of meter. For those who can't write poetry, meter is an obstacle to expression; For a writer, meter has become a powerful tool for expression...because there are only proses with relatively simple rhythms in the world, and there can never be poetry without rhythm. Originally, poetry has never been separated from meter or rhythm." He believes that "rhythm can be viewed from two aspects. Talk about...the visual aspect of rhythm has the symmetry of the verses, and the uniformity of the sentences. The auditory aspect has the format, the scale, the level, and the rhyme." He also believes that "the neat words and sentences are inevitably produced by harmonious syllables. The phenomenon that comes out is that if the syllables are absolutely harmonized, the words and sentences must be neat." He also put forward his own opinion on the problem that the number of words is neat but the syllables are not necessarily harmonious: "That's because only the number of words is neat, and the sound ruler is not taken into account. "The orderliness". In other words, the combination of musical factors such as scale and rhyme constitutes the rhyme and rhythm of poetry, and the harmony of syllables and rhymes constitutes the musical beauty of poetry and becomes the basic driving force of poetry. " "The theory of musical ruler" was Wen Yiduo's most proud discovery, so much so that at the end of his paper he believed that "new poetry will soon enter a new period of construction."
The aesthetic theory of new poetry and painting is Mr. The inheritance of traditional Chinese culture mainly refers to the choice of words in poetry, that is, the language of poetry must be beautiful and colorful, and pay attention to the visual image and intuitiveness of poetry. The origin of poetry and painting is a major feature of Chinese culture. Among the sages, Poetry and painting often complement each other and complement each other. Su Dongpo commented after viewing Wang Wei's poems and paintings: "When you taste the poems of Mojie, there are paintings in the poems; when you look at the paintings of Mojie, there are poems in the paintings." Banqiao has a beautiful pole. The bamboo that is incorporated into poetry and painting is outstanding. In Mr. Wang's poems, words expressing colors such as red, yellow, green, blue, purple, gold, black, and white, as well as objects with bright colors, often appear. In addition, he also pays attention to the use of color. Contrast makes poetry and painting connected.
The theory of architectural beauty in new poetry was put forward by Mr. Wang based on the characteristics of the Chinese language. "Our words are pictographic. When we Chinese appreciate literature and art, at least half of our impressions are It must be conveyed by the eyes. It turns out that literature is an art that takes up time and space. Since it takes up space, it cannot cause a specific visual impression-this is a pity of European writing. Our Words have the possibility of causing such an impression. It would be a pity if we did not take advantage of it... If someone wants to ask what the characteristics of new poetry are, we should answer him: adding the possibility of architectural beauty is one of the characteristics of new poetry. 1." Comparing it with the architectural beauty of rhythmic poetry, he concluded that "(the rhythmic poetry) is much worse" because "the rhythmic poetry always has only one format, but the formats of new poetry are endless...the rhythm of rhythmic poetry It has nothing to do with the content. The format of the new poem is made according to the spirit of the content...The format of the rhymed poem is set by others for us. The format of the new poem can be constructed by our own craftsmen at any time." It mainly refers to the overall structure of the poem. In terms of appearance, the sections should be symmetrical and the lines should be even. Although it is not necessary to rigidly limit the number of words in each line to be equal, the difference between the lines should not be too large to achieve a sense of neatness.