1, Introduction to Landscape Poetry
Landscape poetry, as its name implies, is a poem describing landscapes. It is not necessarily just about the landscape, but there are usually other auxiliary contents, but it still shows the unparalleled beauty of the landscape. The ancients believed that excellent landscape poems had the characteristics of "painting in poetry and poetry in painting". To achieve painting in poetry, we need to be able to paint the subtle meaning of the landscape with a brush.
Landscape poems originated in the pre-Qin and Han dynasties, and the originator was Xie Lingyun in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, where a large number of landscape poems appeared. Landscape poetry appeared after pastoral poetry. Its popularity not only made landscape an independent aesthetic object, but also added a new theme to China's poetry, which was a symbol of harmonious coexistence and further communication between man and nature, and also produced new natural interest.
2. Appreciation of landscape poems
Good landscape poems always contain the author's profound life experience, not just a vague mountain. For example, "But when you walk up a flight of stairs, you broaden your horizons by 300 miles." (Wang Zhihuan's In the Lodge of the Heron) Poetry with logic has dual functions of enlightenment and aesthetics, and its realistic attitude and enterprising spirit are undoubtedly a powerful spur and encouragement to readers. Another example is "the quieter the cicada forest, the quieter the Tonamiyama."
Appreciation methods of landscape poems;
1, reading silently and feeling.
Poetry can be read. Although you can't read aloud, you can still feel your feelings through silent reading, when the delicate and elegant language of Farewell to Cambridge haunts your mind; When the sad and lonely images of Ma Zhiyuan in the Yuan Dynasty, such as "Old trees faint", "Bridges flowing" and "West Wind and Thin Horse", loom before our eyes.
2. Push feelings with scenery
The poet's feelings are always expressed through mountains and rivers, which is called feeling full of mountains and rivers. To taste the feelings of mountains and rivers, we must first talk about the poem itself. Generally speaking, special attention should be paid to decorative words describing mountains and rivers, which often contain the author's feelings. Modifiers such as "empty", "thin", "long" and "strong" themselves contain strong feelings
3. Meet people and talk about feelings
"Knowing people and discussing the world" is a concept of China's ancient literary theory and a principle of criticizing literary works. The language "Mencius Zhang Wan": "Ode to his poems, read his books, don't know who he is, can you?" People can't live without the times. It also needs to know his time. Mastering the principle of "knowing people and discussing the world" is helpful to understand ancient literary works.