1, the content of poetry is the most concentrated reflection of social life.
2. Poetry is rich in emotion and imagination.
3. The poetic language is characterized by conciseness, image, harmonious tone and distinct rhythm.
4. In form, poetry is not based on sentences, but on behavior, and its branches are mainly based on rhythm rather than meaning.
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Poetry genres include narrative poems, lyric poems, farewell poems, frontier poems, pastoral poems, nostalgic poems (epics), object-chanting poems, mourning poems, allegorical poems and modern poems.
Generally speaking, a poetry genre is usually an agreement or classification of the theme, style or literary characteristics of a poem on a broad level. Some critics believe that genre is the natural form of literature, while others believe that genre research studies how different works relate to and quote other works.
Modern poetry debate:
Traditional poetry attaches great importance to the form of poetry, and the use and development of form is basically to reflect the aesthetic feeling of poetry, which is conducive to reciting and making the content more profound. In modern poetry, however, the format is relaxed, and generally at least branches and rhymes are kept, or only branches are left.
Some branches of "poetry" may be just prose after removing the branches. Poetry that completely ignores the format is actually difficult to identify as poetry. Of course, this involves the definition of poetry and its development.
According to genre, it can be classified as follows:
1. Antique poetry: Antique poetry refers to poems before the Tang Dynasty, including The Book of Songs, Songs of the South and Yuefu poems. Poems such as Song, Gexing, Quotations, Qu and Ling are also ancient poems. It is characterized by not paying attention to antithesis, levelness and freedom of rhyme. The development track of ancient poetry: Chu Ci in the Book of Songs, Han Yuefu, folk songs in Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, Jian 'an poems, Tao poems and other five-character poems of literati, ancient customs in Tang Dynasty, new Yuefu and so on.
2. Modern poetry: also known as modern poetry, it is the general name of metrical poems and quatrains formed in the Tang Dynasty. There are strict rules on the number, number of words, level and rhyme of sentences. The quatrains are in four sentences. It is mainly composed of five words and seven words, which are called five musts and seven musts; Rhyme, usually eight sentences in form. It is divided into four parts, which are called the first joint, parallel joint, neck joint and tail joint.
3. Words: also known as "poems" and "long and short sentences". Its characteristics are: the tone has a fixed frame (its own sentence pattern), the number of sentences is fixed (the number of words is specified), and the words have a fixed tone (the pronunciation is very strict). According to different words, it can be divided into long tone (9 1 word or more), middle tone (59-90 words) and short tone (58 words or less).