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." From this, we can see that the crowd and popularity of modern poetry here are fast. From this, we can see that modern poetry is changing with each passing day and is climbing another higher mountain with the fastest speed and the highest uo 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.