In the examination room, candidates are only given six or seven minutes for a poetry appreciation question. Quickly grasping the basic content of poetry is the key for candidates to answer the question and is also the basis for appreciation. The method has the following three points:
(1) Pay attention to the poem title, poem eye, and poem notes
In poetry reading, the first thing we notice is the poem title, and the poem title is often It reflects the content, emotion, theme, interest, technique, etc. of a poem. When reading a poem, you must read the title carefully and understand the information hidden in the title of the poem clearly. You must not take a detour or seek the far away.
Poetic eye is a word in a poem that can reflect the author's emotion. If you grasp the poetic eye, you will also capture the author's emotional tendency and the theme of the poem. The poetic eye can be in the title of the poem or in a certain sentence in the body of the poem.
Poetry notes are supplementary notes given by the author after a poem. They may be an introduction to the relevant historical background when the author wrote the poem, or they may be an explanation of difficult-to-read words in the poem. It may also be the allusions involved in the poem, which are crucial to reading the entire poem and answering the questions that follow, and must not be let go easily.
(2) Learn to know people and discuss the world
As early as the distant ancient times, Chinese poetry has clearly put forward the idea of ??"poetry expresses ambition", and said that "the poet's ambition is what he wants. What is in the heart is ambition, and what is spoken is poetry.” Poetry is the carrier of the poet's subjective emotions and a direct reflection of the era in which the poet lives, the poet's life experiences and ups and downs of fate. Therefore, understanding the poet's life, thoughts, and creative style will help to understand and grasp his works.
(3) Grasp the common types of ancient poetry
There are many poems in my country with various types, which can be roughly divided into the following categories:
Farewell poems for friends. Generally, it is to exhort the other party, praise the other party, and express a feeling of reluctance or longing after farewell.
Write poems about scenery and objects. This type of poetry is the most common in ancient Chinese poetry. Among them, landscape poems mostly use descriptions of scenery to express the poet's feelings of joy, sorrow, or worry, that is, "all scenery language is love language." Poems about objects are mostly works that express one's ambitions, interests, mind, or ambitions through objects.
Landscape idyll. He mostly describes the tranquility of mountains and forests and the leisurely fields to express the poet's dissatisfaction with reality and his yearning for a quiet and peaceful life. A poem about homesickness while traveling. It expresses the sorrow of traveling abroad and expresses the longing for relatives and friends in hometown. It is sad and sad, which is truly touching.
Poems that chant history and remember ancient times usually pay tribute to people or things in ancient times. Admiring the ancients expresses nostalgia, but in fact they are nostalgic for the past and regret the present, expressing the frustration of one's ambitions being unfulfilled; chanting historical facts is mostly to use the past to satirize the present, or to express sighs about the prosperity of the past and the decline of the present.
The above points talk about ways to quickly grasp the basic content of poetry. On the basis of quickly understanding the main idea of ??ancient poetry, the next step is to understand the basic techniques of poetic expression.