poetic sentiment
1. The characteristics of poetry
Poetry is a literary genre that reflects real life and expresses thoughts and feelings with strong feelings and rich imagination through rhythmic language. Lyrical color, beautiful rhyme and implicit conciseness are the three basic characteristics of poetry. There are many kinds of poems. From the content, there are mainly lyric poems and narrative poems, and from the form, there are metrical poems, free poems and folk songs.
On the Classification of Ancient Poetry
China's poems have a long history and are rich in excellent works. In ancient China, unhappy people were called poems and happy people were called songs and lyrics. The ancients said that "poetry expresses ambition, and songs express ambition" refers to the role of poetry and songs. What modern people call poetry mainly refers to poetry, while poetry refers to poetry and songs.
There are many kinds of poems.
According to the content, there are lyric poems, narrative poems, farewell poems, frontier poems and pastoral poems. According to the structural forms, there are metrical poems, free poems, prose poems and allegro poems; There are new poems and old poems according to time; From other angles, it can also be divided into: philosophical poems, limerick poems, satirical poems, recitation poems and so on.
The so-called ancient poetry refers to the old poetry as opposed to the new poetry, that is, the poetry of China society before the May 4th Movement, also known as the old-style poetry.
Ancient poetry can be divided into four-character poems, five-character poems, six-character poems, seven-character poems and miscellaneous poems. According to the genre, it can be divided into: Chu ci style, Yuefu style, Gexing style, metrical style, etc. According to the standard of melody, it can be divided into ancient poems and modern poems.
Classical poetry and modern poetry are concepts formed in the Tang Dynasty. Before the Tang Dynasty, poems were written with free rhymes, and each sentence was four, five, six, seven, and miscellaneous (more people in later generations used classical poems with seven words). Therefore, people in the Tang Dynasty called this kind of poetry ancient poetry, also known as ancient poetry and ancient style. Modern poetry, compared with classical poetry, is also called modern poetry, which is a kind of metrical poetry formed in the Tang Dynasty. It is divided into quatrains and metrical poems, and its word number, sentence number, level tone and rhyme are strictly regulated. For example, a metrical poem, which originated in the Southern and Northern Dynasties and matured in the early Tang Dynasty, has four or five rhymes, eight sentences each and the number of words must be the same.