2. Modern poetry is divided into metrical poems and quatrains. Therefore, the basic forms of Tang poetry are five-character poems, seven-character poems, five-character poems, seven-character poems, five-character quatrains and seven-character quatrains.
The style of classical poetry is handed down from the previous generation, so it is also called ancient style. Before the Tang Dynasty, this style of poetry had no specific name. After the rise of regular poetry in the Tang Dynasty, people called it "modern poetry", while those who failed to meet the requirements of regular poetry were called ancient poetry. Modern poetry is also called metrical poetry because it has strict metrical requirements. Relatively speaking, the requirements of rhyme and meter in ancient poetry are relatively loose, while those in modern poetry are relatively strict. For example, the number of sentences in a poem is fixed, that is, eight rhymes and four quatrains; The words used in each poem also follow certain rules, and the rhyme cannot be changed at will; Rhyme also requires that the frontal couplet and the cervical couplet (that is, the middle four sentences) become antonyms.
4. Poets in Tang Dynasty wrote a lot of poems, from natural phenomena to political dynamics, from work and life to social customs. Some poems reflect the social situation and class contradictions at that time, thus exposing the dark corruption of feudal society; Some poems praise the just war and express the poet's patriotic feelings; Some poems depict the beautiful and charming mountains and rivers of the motherland; In addition, some poems express the poet's ambition and experience, express the love between men and women, tell the friendship of friends, the joys and sorrows of life and so on.