A good imagination is a poem in itself. For example:
Open your big mouth,
Serve the people. (He Zhou's scissors).
Only by exerting imagination can we create a vivid image. Imagination endows poetry with vitality. Without imagination, the poems written are dry. Imagination can make a little thing show amazing charm. For example:
Flowers in the corner,
When you appreciate yourself,
The world is getting smaller. (Bing Xin's Star)
Flowers are common in corners and are easily overlooked. If you only appreciate your own beauty, it will become smaller. Here, the poet draws an extraordinary truth from an ordinary thing by imagining and comparing people and flowers. Without imagination, it is impossible to write such inspiring poems.
Secondly, poetry must be true, and only true is beautiful. We should be able to find something that can move us from life and then express it in the language and form of poetry. In this way, people can make their hearts sing and poetry becomes meaningful. For example:
You are so small.
Run in the dark
……
Although it is a small insect.
Make the night brighter (Bucong's firefly)
At the end of the poem, the little poet sent a sentimental eulogy to the devotees with the emotional sentence "Although it is a bug/make the night brighter". But such poems need to be experienced from the heart. If the little poet didn't observe fireflies carefully, didn't talk to them attentively, and didn't transpose himself into fireflies to experience their life and life, he couldn't have written such a vigilant poem.
With the wings of imagination and the power of emotion, the beauty of poetry will emerge as the times require.
However, we must be clear that the format of poetry is also a problem that must be paid attention to, except for writing according to content or sentences, especially in the organization of language. Mainly manifested in two aspects: first, the use of rhetoric; The first is to break the conventional combination. Flexible use of various rhetoric can enhance the vitality of poetry, and boldly breaking the conventional combination (that is, not matching according to grammatical requirements) can achieve unexpected results, but it should not be too much.
Rhetoric is an important skill in poetry. Including personification, metaphor, parallelism, rhetorical question, repetition, thimble, duality, exaggeration, symbol and so on. It can be said that each expression technique has its own uniqueness. The use of metaphor can express the content of poetry more vividly and vividly. The use of xing can make readers understand the artistic conception of poetry from the beginning, and make poetry more affectionate and lasting appeal; The use of exaggeration, symbolism, synaesthesia and other techniques can inject more fresh blood into poetry, make poetry more imaginative and approachable, without making people feel vague and obscure, and make readers truly understand the thoughts and feelings expressed by the author.
Symbolism, on the other hand, uses concrete things to express a special meaning, which is the most commonly used technique in poetry. For example, Bing Xin's Paper Boat symbolizes the yearning for his mother, and Feng Zhi's I am a river symbolizes the pursuit of love. Usually we also like to use symbols, such as "plum blossom" to symbolize perseverance and "candle" to symbolize silent dedication. Wang Jiaxin's Beyond the Mountain uses "sea" and "mountain" to symbolize "ideal" and "difficulties and setbacks in pursuing ideal". Do you know the common symbolic meanings of the following objects? Sun, bees, flies, mosquitoes, snowflakes? Bright, selfless, dirty, exploitative and pure.
I won't go into details about the use of other techniques, but we will continue to learn and use them in the creative process.