The expressive art of repeating chapters and singing in The Book of Songs
It is a remarkable feature in the artistic expression of The Book of Songs to express feelings by repeating chapters and singing.
The so-called repeated singing means that all chapters of a poem are almost identical in structure and language, only a few words are changed in the middle, and sometimes only one or two words are changed, and each chapter is repeated and sung repeatedly. Thus, it plays an aesthetic and artistic effect of strengthening music beat, deepening theme, strengthening lyricism and increasing appeal.
First, create the atmosphere and artistic conception of the poem with the help of special musical effects
Zheng Feng Storm is a masterpiece with a lot of ups and downs. The first two sentences of each chapter are all inspired by wind and rain and cock crow. These exciting sentences, which are both scenic, redraw a cold and gloomy background with cock crow everywhere. The three chapters of the psalm are repeated, and the scenery is written through easy words, which subtly shows people's different feelings.
Sorrow is a woman's feeling of being cold and windy; When it's raining, you can see the sudden rain at night from the hearing; Like the gloom of night, it also shows the scene in front of you visually. Through the repeated arrangement of the whole poem, the poem forms a distinct rhythm and harmonious rhythm in phonology, arouses people's imagination and emotion, and creates the atmosphere and artistic conception of the poem, which has become a common lyric technique in later poems, especially in folk songs and modern songs.
Second, sing repeatedly to strengthen the expression of the theme
The poem "Qin Feng Without Clothes" shows the theme of the soldiers' unity, friendship and solidarity in the war. The robe, lustre and dress in the poem refer to clothes, while the spear, spear halberd and armored soldier refer to weapons, and the same hatred, joint work and joint travel are also synonyms, and they are not interchangeable.
Step by step, increase the lyrical content of the poem, and strengthen the feeling of life
The poem "Calling the South to Have Plums" describes an unmarried woman who is looking forward to the man who proposes to come early, and don't wait until her youth is gone and her beauty is old to get married. The first chapter of the poem says that the plums on the tree still have seven points, the second chapter says that the plums on the tree still have three points, and the third chapter says that the plums on the tree have fallen out.
Just change a few expressive words in time and quantity, and correspond the process of plum falling from more to less with the girl's psychology of growing old and waiting anxiously, which better promotes the expression of poetry in this in-depth time structure.
The poem "Feng Wang Caige" has a very obvious hierarchical relationship in time. The feelings of lovers' lovesickness, from "March" to "Sanqiu" and then to "three years old", are progressive step by step, making the feelings deeper and deeper. In this particular hierarchical structure of time, the yearning of lovers is better expressed.
The poem "Qin Feng Jia Jian" reflects the chronological order and hierarchical relationship through the description of phenological changes. Through the autumn dew, from "for frost" to "not sad" and then to "not already", it shows the poet's long-term life track of searching up and down, wandering and pursuing, and also shows the poet's deep and lasting feeling of thinking about the curtain, which deepens the poetic sentiment and increases the lyric capacity of the poem.
Extended information:
As far as musical tone is concerned, the whole poem is formed for the sake of harmony.
All living and lively poems in ancient times can often be sung, and the harmony of tones is emphasized. The use of repeated chapters and sentences in Guanju shows that it is a song and a poem that lives in people's mouths. Of course, "Guanju" is a combination of expressing poetic meaning and quick tone to convey poetic meaning with tone.
Many folk songs in The Book of Songs are in the form of overlapping sentences, which looks monotonous but has its special effects. In the constant overlap, a simple, lively and reciprocating musical sense is produced.
At the same time, in the change of six verbs, it shows the process of taking more and more until returning home with full load. There are no crickets in the poem, but people can clearly feel their cheerful mood when reading it-the mood is conveyed in the musical rhythm of the poem.