What's the difference between man and beast? People are thoughtful. Where do ideas come from? Culture and art, of course, culture can have no art or rely less on art, and art must be attached to the bones of culture. Literature is a model of the perfect combination of culture and art, especially poetry as literature in literature.
In the movie Farewell My Concubine, Master taught his disciples: "If he were a man, he would go to the opera. If he doesn't go to the opera, he is not a man, but an animal! " This is a bit excessive, but it makes sense. I've always liked this sentence. People ask me what's the use of reading poetry, and I really want to repay him in other words. It is culture and art that make people become people-although it doesn't sound good at first, why is the most important thing for people the least useful for survival? I'll mention it later. And poetry is such a thing that "makes people become people". Similar to all literary forms, poetry has achieved people in language, but in comparison, poetry is more pure. It is farther away from the concrete life and closer to itself.
One thing to clarify is that poetry can express feelings and wishes, but poetry is not a tool to express feelings or wishes in our hands. Because tools are useful for survival, their function is only for people (precisely, for people's survival), tools have no "itself", but poetry has-poetry is just itself. While people achieve people through poetry, poetry also achieves poetry itself through people, which is a feature that tools do not have. If one day even tools have their own, it will represent the end of mankind-assuming that robots can think? There are many science fiction films. The achievements of poetry and other arts just represent the glory of mankind. Therefore, we should respect poetry and don't treat a poem as an official document. Because it is independent of us, a poem is like a person, a friend and a teacher standing in front of you.
What is a good poem? A good poem is a poem that better achieves the poem itself. I think a poem's self-achievement and its achievement to people are homogeneous. It has made people and made themselves.
First of all, poetry is the achievement of readers. When a poem is written for readers, it must give readers room to discover themselves and guide them to discover themselves to some extent. That is to say, first, a good poem cannot be obvious. There is no doubt that a poem is nothing more than a skeleton and internal organs-what's the use of giving it to experts to solve problems? Therefore, the obscurity of poetry is common. Through defamiliarization, readers can not be bound by inertial thinking in the process of learning, and have more imagination space and the possibility of continuous discovery. On the contrary, I think those poems that are too "easy to understand" can only leave enough space for readers unless the poet's skill is really good. Second, the sentences of a good poem must be full of hints, and these hints must strongly point to a specific theme. Only in this way can poetry play a good role in "guiding" and "guiding readers to discover themselves at a certain level".
At the same time, poetry should also achieve the poet himself. The theme that the poet guides the reader must be the poet's own theme. The language of poetry itself must be included in the poet's own point of view. It is the poet's conscience to cherish ink like gold and strive for meticulous words. In the process of writing, poets have experienced a more difficult process of exploring and expressing themselves than all readers-it is this process that makes poetry fundamentally become poetry and makes poets become poets. A senior at Fudan University (sorry, I forget who it is) said that writing poetry has never been a romantic thing, and I deeply agree.
I am a beginner in poetry, and these feelings are biased. I hope I can get some advice ~ ~ ~