Modern poetry, also known as "vernacular poetry", can be traced back to the late Qing Dynasty, which is a kind of poetry. Compared with ancient poems, although they are all written for understanding things, they are generally informal in format and rhythm.
According to the forms of expression, it can be divided into narrative poems and lyric poems. Narrative poems have relatively complete story lines and characters, which are usually expressed by the poet's passionate singing. Poetic novels, such as Don Juan by English poet george gordon byron and yevgeni onegin by Russian poet Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin.
Lyrics mainly reflect social life by directly expressing the poet's thoughts and feelings, and do 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.
Poetry has a strong artistic generalization. To appreciate poetry, we should start with concise and implicit language, grasp the deep meaning of key sentences, taste the emotions expressed in poetry, analyze various artistic expression means of poetry, grasp and deeply understand the artistic image created by poetry, and feel the beautiful artistic conception of poetry.
Basic features of modern poetry;
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 feel things and reflect the soul, they completely break through the characteristics of ancient poetry, which are "gentle and sincere, with no complaints", and emphasize more on free and open, straightforward statements and intangible communication between reason and reason.
The mainstream of modern poetry is free verse. Free verse is the product of the May 4th New Culture Movement, which uses vernacular in form, breaking the shackles of old-style poetry, and mainly reflects new life and expresses new ideas in content.