Characteristics of children's poetry
Children's poetry can be divided into two types: children's songs and children's poetry.
1. Characteristics of children's songs
Children's songs It is a short poem with folk song flavor that is mainly targeted at young children. It is one of the oldest and most basic genres of children's literature. Children's songs include both folk nursery rhymes and new children's songs created by writers. Children's songs have The following characteristics:
(1) The content is simple and the thoughts are simple. Or simply describe and narrate events in a concentrated manner, or express ordinary things in concise and interesting rhymes.
(2) The length is short and the structure is simple.
(3) The language is lively, the rhythm is bright and easy to sing. Case 1
2. Characteristics of children's poetry
Children's poetry refers to An art form that targets children, conforms to their psychological and aesthetic characteristics, and uses the most emotional, concise, rhythmic, and branched language to express ideas. It also includes poems created by children to express their feelings. Children's poetry It has the following characteristics:
(1) Full of children's emotions.
This kind of emotion not only allows children to get care and pleasure from it, but also brings adult readers back to the childlike innocence. In the scene, relive your childhood dreams. Case 2
(2) Children's rich imagination
Children are the most imaginative and associative, and they always use their own creativity They use imagination to understand and interpret everything in the world. In the world they poeticize through imagination, flowers can laugh, birds can sing, grass can dance, fish can speak... Children's poems are based on imagination. Use your heart to talk to children in the world. Case 3
(3) Novel and ingenious ideas.
The emotions expressed in children's poems are both rich and profound. , are far inferior to adult poetry, which is determined by the emotional characteristics of children. How can we express our interests on a not very broad emotional level and create unique expression effects? This mainly depends on the novelty and ingenuity of the idea. This dependence The accumulation of life and the conception of children's imagination determine to a large extent the artistic level of children's poetry. Case 4
(4) Innocent and refined language. Case 5
( 5) Childlike and beautiful artistic conception. Case 6
3. The difference between children's poetry and children's songs
Children's poetry and children's songs both belong to the category of children's poetry. Although they both have the characteristics of poetry They have unique characteristics, but each has its own personality characteristics. There is an obvious difference between the two.
(1) From the perspective of the readership, children’s songs are aimed at children of preschool and early school age. as the main target; children's poetry is mainly aimed at children of middle and late school age.
(2) From the perspective of the expression of the theme, the theme of children's poetry is often expressed in an indirect way, which is more profound and Implicit; children's songs tend to express their themes relatively simply and easily. Case 7
(3) From the perspective of language expression, the language of children's poems and children's songs requires conciseness, conciseness, and generality. .Due to the difference in depth of expression, the language of children's poetry is purer, more concentrated, and full of imaginative tension than the language of children's songs. In terms of rhythm, children's poetry does not pay as much attention to the harmony of phonology and the neatness of rhythm as children's songs.
(4) In terms of length, poems can be long or short and are not limited. Among them, narrative poems and fairy tale poems are relatively long; while children's songs are generally shorter because they are created orally and sung by young children.