Poetry is a lyrical literary genre. Mao's Preface to Poetry says: "Poets have their own aspirations. Have ambition in your heart and speak like a poem. " Yan Yu's Poems on Canglang in the Southern Song Dynasty said that "poets chant temperament". There is only one art expressed in words: poetry.
Classification of modern poetry There are many ways to express the classification of modern poetry. According to the form, it can be divided into free verse and metrical verse. At present, the former dominates, but the author is more optimistic about the latter. According to genre, it can be divided into fairy tale poems, fable poems, prose poems and verse poems.
According to the way of expression, it can be divided into narrative poetry, reasoning poetry and lyric poetry, and the latter is the main theme at present. If divided by length, it can be divided into micro-poems, short poems, short poems and long poems.
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Modern poetry, also known as vernacular poetry, originated in the late Qing Dynasty and prevailed after the May 4th Movement. Like China's modern society, it is deeply influenced by foreign cultures and advocates symbols, stream of consciousness and surrealism. Compared with classical poetry, although they are all written for feelings, they are generally not bound by format and rhythm.
The form is more unrestrained and free, and the meaning is richer and richer. The management of images is often more important than the use of rhetoric, which completely breaks through the characteristics of "gentle and sincere, mourning without complaining" in ancient poetry, and emphasizes the communication between free, open and straightforward sentences and "feeling and invisibility". China's modern poetry is divided into two relatively independent stages: China's modern poetry before the founding of New China and China's contemporary poetry after the founding of New China.