First, what is modern poetry?
Modern poetry is a new freestyle poem written in vernacular Chinese, which is relative to the old-style poems and metrical poems in ancient China. There is no requirement for even and flat meter and rhyme, and there is no word limit between sentences.
At the end of the Qing Dynasty, when translating free poems of western culture, scholars began to create unrestricted new poetry formats. Driven by the May 4th New Culture Movement, modern poetry has developed rapidly, with a history of nearly one hundred years.
There are early modern poets in China, such as Xu Zhimo, Wen Yiduo and Dai Wangshu. Especially, Xu Zhimo's poems are unique and full of musical beauty and harmonious beauty. His famous Farewell to Cambridge has been widely circulated for a long time. After Xu Zhimo, modern poets such as Xi Murong, Wang Guozhen and Shu Ting appeared, and they all made certain achievements. With the development of Internet, many people have devoted themselves to the creation and dissemination of modern poetry.
How can we novices write a modern poem well? I have seen some students' works, both good and problematic.
Second, the main problems of modern poetry
1, it's so hazy that people don't know what to say. Some people think poetry is lofty and romantic, but they don't know how to express it. So some so-called poets deliberately imitate the hazy coat, thinking that only in this way can they show their talent and level, so some sick sentences and words appear in their poems, which of course affect readers' reading and understanding.
2. It is not a poem if you break the sentence casually. Some people think that modern poetry is to divide the content of vernacular Chinese into lines and sentences. This is definitely wrong, because it has no aesthetic feeling and artistic conception.
3. It's disgusting if there is no content. Some students have just started to learn to write poems and don't know how to express their thoughts. They think more flowery words are enough. In fact, words without content are not feasible, just like a beautiful piece of cloth, which can only be put at home and cannot be worn out as clothes.
3. What are the real modern poems?
1, with clear ideological content and coherence.
We know that any literary work should have a theme and a central idea, and so should poetry. Readers who have a certain reading level (I mean junior high school students or readers equivalent to junior high school students) can understand the central idea from the poem after reading it. The ideas before and after the poem can't be inconsistent, let alone incoherent, especially without words, which makes people feel confused.
2. It should be poetic.
What is poetry? This is an abstract concept. I think it refers to the artistic conception and aesthetic feeling of poetry, and the poetic feeling created in the works. But it is not mysterious, it can be perceived by people. When readers read carefully, they can emerge the same inner feelings from the subconscious and produce some artistic conception and aesthetic feeling.
What is artistic conception?
It refers to artistic creation, especially the artistic realm that poetry creation can make people feel and understand, but it is difficult to express. It is the unity of form and expression and the coordination of reality and reality. Born by accident, but also contained in the image, the meaning and realm conveyed by the image. Generally speaking, it is "only understandable, but not verbal", and poetry is to convey "only understandable" in an aesthetic way.
Fourthly, the writing skills of modern poetry.
We have loved poetry since childhood. It carries too much beauty and our memories of the past. So how can we write a poem well? I want to say the following:
1. Wonderful music.
Poetry, which we also call poetry, has melody and can be sung. Ancient poetry can be, so can modern poetry. As we all know, many poems of the famous poet Li Qingzhao have been adapted into songs. Such as the familiar "Full Moon West Building" and "Like a Dream". Now many songs are also very poetic. For example, blue and white porcelain, chrysanthemum dregs. ? "Chrysanthemum is broken, and your smile has turned yellow." A good poem, after repeated reading and experience, is not difficult to find the beauty of melody.
2. The beauty of painting
China's landscape paintings pay attention to images and blank spaces, but in fact, poetry also pays attention to the beauty of blank spaces and images. It needs readers' imagination more than prose and novels.
3. Sentence breaking and simplification of poetry.
Poetry is generally punctuated according to thinking logic and language sense. One line of poetry is a logical process of thinking, and there is a clear boundary between the next line of poetry and the previous line of poetry. In addition, when writing while reading, I can also judge sentences by feeling.
Poetry needs more words and sentences than prose and novels. To be true, you can't add another word or subtract another word.
4. According to the branch of philosophy.
This technique is more common in philosophical poems, which is usually manifested in disassembling the whole image and expounding it in sections, resulting in great imagination and philosophical thinking, thus forming great tension. This kind of poetry needs people with a certain cultural background to master. For example, Yu's "You don't understand me, I don't blame you", the author expounds a profound emotion from many levels.