Several steps of modern poetry writing
"Poets have aspirations in their hearts and poetic words" is people's yearning for and pursuit of beautiful things. This is a passage I read a long time ago about explaining modern poetry.
In the book Literary Theory, the description of modern poetry is that poetry is the oldest literary genre. I think the definition of "oldest" here must be broad, because the poetry it refers to includes classical poetry and modern poetry. As we all know, the development of modern poetry in China is only a few decades. However, in just a few decades, modern poetry has advanced by leaps and bounds and achieved great achievements that we can be proud of. Many outstanding modern poets were born in this period.
According to the poet He three old ladies when answering a reporter's question, "China's modern poetry has entered the prosperous Tang Dynasty." It can be seen that the popularity and popularity of modern poetry here are spreading rapidly, and it can also be seen that modern poetry is changing with each passing day and is climbing to another higher mountain with the fastest speed and the highest level.
I like poetry, which gives vitality and has strong emotional characteristics. It can be your ideal revenge, your living habits and customs, and your emotional catharsis. I once said-poetry is true emotion. The "true" is the most beautiful.
Classification of modern poetry
There are also many ways to classify modern poetry, which can be divided into different categories according to different principles and standards. The basics are as follows:
(1) Narrative Poetry:
What is a narrative poem? Narrative poetry is a kind of poetry with relatively complete stories and characters. Usually expressed by the poet's passionate singing style. Epic, story poem and poetic novel all belong to this category. Ancient Greek Homer's epics such as Heriat and Odyssey; China poet Li Ji's Wang Gui and Li Xiangxiang and other story poems; Don Juan by British poet Byron and yevgeni onegin by Russian poet Pushkin.
(2) Lyrics:
What is lyric poetry? Lyric poetry is a kind of poetry that mainly reflects 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.
(3) metrical poems:
What is metrical poetry? Metric poems are poems 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. Such as the metrical poems, quatrains and songs in China's ancient poems and the European sonnets.
(4) free verse:
What is free verse? Free verse 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.
(5) prose poetry:
What is prose poetry? Prose poetry is a kind of poetry 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 natural rhythm and the beauty of music. The length is short, like prose, and it does not rhyme, such as Lu Xun's Weeds.
(6) Philosophical poetry:
What is philosophical poetry? Philosophical poetry is a kind of poetry that expresses the poet's philosophical views and reflects philosophical truth. The content of this kind of poems is profound, implicit and meaningful, and most of them contain abstract philosophy in their distinctive artistic images. The length is short and pithy. In ancient times, there were mostly four quatrains, while new poems appeared in one to four sentences. Such as Su Shi's "Title Xilin Wall"; Bai Juyi's Song of Eternal Sorrow; Su Shi's Qin poems; Chen Yi's Winter Night Chant. Song Qing.
(7) Inscription:
What is a poem? A poem is a kind of poem written according to the meaning of the picture or for the picture. The emergence of China's poems on paintings has always been considered to have started in the Tang Dynasty, and its founder is Du Fu. If painting poems refer to poems inscribed on the screen, according to the existing data, it is only in the Tang Dynasty. If we don't specifically refer to painting poems, but regard indirect painting poems as painting poems, such as chanting paintings, painting poems, painting fans, painting poems and painting poems, then according to the existing data, there were painting poems in the Six Dynasties. For example, in the poems of the Three Kingdoms in the Han, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, there are three poems by Ye Tao in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, one of which is: "Seven treasures draw a round fan, and the moon is bright." It's summer with Lang, but you can't forget each other if you remember each other. In particular, Yu Xin, an outstanding poet from the Liang Dynasty to the Northern Zhou Dynasty, wrote 25 poems "Painting Screen" in the Liang Dynasty, which vividly described the beautiful picture on the painting screen.
Writing skills and techniques of modern poetry
First, the use of language and artistic conception.
Modern poetry has three obvious and concrete elements, which are: language, artistic conception and rhythm. This shows how important language and artistic conception are to a modern poem. If we want to appreciate the quality of a modern poem, these two factors are the first, essential and can't be ignored.
As we all know, language comes from life, but the language used in any genre of articles is not the language of life. "Art comes from life and is higher than life", in fact, this means that the language of any literary genre comes from life, but it is also "necessarily higher than life."
As a poetic literary genre, it plays a more important role and charm in language. In a modern poem, if the language is elegant and unique, there must be some chewing and interest; And if the language is not used properly, it will destroy the atmosphere and style of the whole work. As for artistic conception, I personally think it is something that can render works and atmosphere. It can be an open picture, from far to near, or from near to far, or it can be a kind of feeling, philosophical thinking and Zen. In other words, artistic conception can be divided into tangible and intangible categories, and tangible objects and pictures are tangible artistic conception; There is also an artistic conception that is invisible, because there are no so-called pictures and objects. This artistic conception only exists as an idea or a feeling.
Below, we will appreciate the charm of language and artistic conception through specific works.
First, let's read the poem Sparrow by the poet He three old ladies.
sparrow
The heavy snow fell under the mountain.
The house curled up in the snow.
There is smoke on the roof.
Sparrows are dressed as
autumn leave
Fall from a branch
All of a sudden,
Go back to the tree
In just a few words, the poet opened a beautiful picture for us with elegant language and artistic conception. In these three simple poems, we can appreciate a beautiful artistic conception, which is tangible, such as "white snow flowers, houses, snow, kitchen smoke", and several simple images, which fluctuate in front of readers inadvertently, have actually created a particularly elegant artistic conception and atmosphere. And "falling from the branch/returning to the tree instantly" is actually a tangible and intangible artistic conception. In this intangible artistic conception, we see not only sparrows, leaves and trees, but also a broad vision and thoughts, with a lot of feelings and thoughts. Animals living and working optimistically in the cold is actually an encouragement and gratitude to human beings.
"Sparrows dress up as/autumn leaves/fall from branches/return to trees in an instant", and you can also appreciate the elegance of the poet's sentences and narrative here. "Sparrow Dressing/Autumn Leaves" doesn't have much decoration, but it brings readers extremely clean and clear, and the tranquility of "falling from the branches/returning to the trees instantly". Short poems have also achieved great success. Here, we fully realize the great charm that language and artistic conception bring to works and readers.
Second, grasp the rhythm and rhythm.
Anyone who has been exposed to literature knows the meaning of rhythm. In classical poetry, rhythm plays a very important role. If there is no rhythm, or the rhythm is incomplete, then classical poetry cannot be called poetry, and even the best poetry will lose its value.
After the New Culture Movement, in the early modern poetry, the poet grasped the rhythm very carefully and meticulously. In early modern poetry, we can often read good works with ingenious rhythm and rhythm. These good works usually give us the feeling that reading is brisk, beautiful, cadence, or capable, atmospheric, mellow and long-lasting. These excellent works of rhythm and rhythm are also excellent works of recitation.
The writing format of modern poetry
Modern poetry is not as strict in format as ancient poetry, but relatively free in form, as long as it is catchy, clear in content and appropriate in emotion. But it should not be too vulgar and poetic. The rhyme is not too strict, but it can be changed in the middle or not. There is no requirement for the number of words in each sentence. The writing format of modern poetry;
1] XXX personnel position
2] Action XXX
3] In XXX (location)
4] Existence (condition) XXX
At first glance, it will be so vague that you don't even know what you are talking about. It doesn't matter. Let me explain it slowly:
1] People's position is to explain a state, such as "I am standing on the edge of the 27th floor".
2] XXX action: explain a situation related to [1], such as "Snow falls at my feet"
3] In XXX (location): Change scenes, such as On that windy day.
4] Existence (condition) XXX: Simply put, it is to state an unconnected state, such as "My tears turned into snowflakes". Then connect the above four sentences to see if they are like modern poems: I am standing on the edge of the 27th floor, and the snow all over the sky falls at my feet. On that windy day, my tears turned into snowflakes.