What is modern poetry? How long does it usually take?

Modern poetry is free in form and rich in connotation, and image management is more important than rhetoric application. Compared with ancient poetry, although they all perceive things and reflect the soul, they completely break through the characteristics of ancient poetry, which are "gentle and sincere, mourning without complaining", and emphasize more on free and open, straightforward statements, and communication between sensible and intangible. The mainstream of modern poetry is free verse. Free verse is the product of the May 4th New Culture Movement, which adopts vernacular in form, breaking the shackles of old-style poetry, and mainly reflects new life and expresses new ideas in content. Obscure poetry has existed since ancient times, and it is not excluded to the present. In fact, misty poetry is just an art form of poetry creation. The first characteristic of misty poetry is "not straightforward". "Not straightforward" is a creative habit or thinking habit of poets. For readers, it increases the opportunity of interpretation intervention.

There are also many ways to classify poems, which can be divided into different categories according to different principles and standards. The basic types are as follows: 1, narrative poetry and lyric poetry. This is divided according to the expression of the content of the work. (1) Narrative Poetry: Poetry contains relatively complete story lines and characters, which are usually expressed by the poet's passionate singing. Epic, story poem and poetic novel all belong to this category. Ancient Greek Homer's epics such as Heriat and Odyssey; Story poems, such as Wang Gui and Li Xiangxiang by China poet Li Ji; Don Juan by British poet Byron and yevgeni onegin by Russian poet Pushkin. (2) Lyrics: It mainly reflects the social life by directly expressing the poet's thoughts and feelings, and does not require complete stories and characters. Such as love songs, carols, elegies, elegies, pastoral songs, satirical poems, etc. Narration and lyricism are not absolutely separated. Narrative poetry is also lyrical, but its lyricism requires close combination with narrative. Lyric poems often describe some fragments of life, but they can't be spread out, and they must obey the needs of lyricism. 2. Metric poems, free poems and prose poems. This is classified according to the phonological meter and structural form of the language of the work. (1) Metric poetry: It is a poem written according to certain formats and rules. It has strict rules on the number of lines, the number of words (or syllables), the tone and rhyme, the antithesis of words and the arrangement of sentence patterns. For example, China's ancient poems, quatrains, words and songs, and European sonnets. (2) Free verse: it is a newly developed poetic style in modern Europe and America. It is not limited by metrical rules, has no fixed format, pays attention to natural and internal rhythm, and uses rhymes roughly similar or without rhymes. The number of words, lines, sentence patterns and tones are relatively free, and the language is relatively popular. Whitman, an American poet (1819-1892), is the founder of European and American free verse, and Leaves of Grass is his main collection of poems. This poetic style has also become popular in China since the May 4th Movement. (3) Prose poetry: it is a literary genre with both prose and poetry characteristics. There are poetic artistic conception and passion in the works, which are often full of philosophy, paying attention to the rhythm of nature and the beauty of music. The length is short, like prose, and it does not rhyme, such as Lu Xun's Weeds.