Understand the knowledge of poetry

1. Characteristics of poetry: Poetry is a style juxtaposed with novels, essays and plays. It expresses the author's rich thoughts and feelings in a highly concise language and reflects social life in a concentrated way, with a certain rhythm and rhythm. Its main features are as follows: ① The content of poetry is the most concentrated reflection of social life. ② Poetry is rich in emotion and imagination, and is good at impressing readers emotionally. ③ The language of poetry is concise in image, harmonious in tone and distinct in rhythm. (4) Poetry is not in the form of sentences, but in the form of actions (one sentence of China's old-style poems, words and songs is a line).

2. Classification of poetry: According to different classification standards, poetry can be divided into several categories. According to the country, it can be divided into China poetry and foreign poetry; China's poems can be divided into ancient poems and new poems according to the times. In ancient China, poetry was divided into poems, words and songs according to its style. China's ancient poems can be divided into ancient poems and modern poems. Words can be divided into Xiao Ling (less than 58 words), Zhong Diao (59-9 words) and Long Diao (more than 9l words). Yuanqu can be divided into poem and song number (also called song number); New poems can be divided into free poems and new poems written in old forms.

3. Ancient poetry and new poetry: Ancient poetry generally refers to rhymes written in classical Chinese in the long river of ancient literature, that is, poems, words and songs in this historical period. New poetry refers to the poetry that appeared after the May 4th New Culture and New Literature Movement.