Poem content classification

1) Narrative poetry:

A kind of poetry with a relatively complete storyline and characters. It is usually expressed in the way of the poet's passionate singing. Epic, story poem, poetic style Novels, etc. all fall into this category. Epics such as "The Iliad" and "The Odyssey" by Homer of ancient Greece; story poems such as "Wang Gui and Li Xiangxiang" by Chinese poet Li Ji; and poetic novels such as "The Iliad" and "Odyssey" by British poet Byron. "Don Juan", Russian poet Pushkin's "Eugene Onegin".

(2) Lyric poetry:

A type of poetry that mainly expresses the poet's thoughts and feelings directly. Poems that reflect social life and do not require the description of complete storylines and characters. For example, love songs, odes, elegy, elegy, pastoral and satire.

(3) Metrical poetry:

Poetry that has always been written according to a certain format and rules. It has strict regulations on the number of lines of the poem, the number of words (or syllables) of the poem, the tones and rhymes, the antithesis of words, the arrangement of sentences, etc. For example, the "regular poetry" in ancient Chinese poetry "Quatrains", "words" and "qu", European "sonnets".

(4) Free verse:

A new type of poetry developed in modern Europe and America Style. It is not restricted by meter, has no fixed format, pays attention to natural and inner rhythm, rhymes with roughly similar rhymes or no rhymes, has a relatively free number of words, lines, sentence patterns, and tones, and the language is relatively popular. American poet Whitt Mann (1819-1892) was the founder of European and American free verse, and "Leaves of Grass" was his main collection of poems. This style of poetry has also been popular in my country since the "May Fourth Movement".

(5) Prose Poetry:

A kind of poetry that has the characteristics of both prose and poetry. The works have the artistic conception and passion of poetry, are often philosophical, pay attention to the natural rhythm and musical beauty, are short in length, and are as different as prose. Branched lines, no rhyme, such as Lu Xun's "Wild Grass".

(6) Philosophical Poetry:

A kind of poetry that expresses the poet's philosophical views and reflects philosophical principles. The content of this kind of poetry It is deep, profound, implicit and meaningful, and often contains the abstract philosophy of philosophy in vivid artistic images. The length is short and concise, most of them are four-sentence quatrains in ancient times, but one to four sentences appear in new poems. For example, Su Shi's "Inscribed on the Wall of the Western Forest" ; Bai Juyi's "Song of Everlasting Sorrow"; Su Shi's "Qin Poems"; Chen Yi's "Winter Night Miscellany. Green Pines".

(7) Poems on paintings:

A kind of picture-pressing Poems that are meant to accompany pictures or add text to pictures. The emergence of Chinese painting poems has always been considered to have begun in the Tang Dynasty, with the founder being Du Fu. If we say that painting poems specifically refer to poems that are inscribed on pictures, based on the existing data, it can be seen that , that is something that only happened in the Tang Dynasty. If it does not specifically refer to poems inscribed on the picture, but to the poems that are not directly inscribed on the picture, the painting, the painting, the fan painting, the mural, the screen painting. If the poem is a poem on painting, then, judging from the available data, there were already poems on painting in the Six Dynasties. For example, "Poems on the Han Dynasty, Three Kingdoms, Two Jins, Southern and Northern Dynasties" contains three poems on "Reply to the King Tuan Fan Song" written by Taoye in the Eastern Jin Dynasty. The first one is: "The fan with seven treasures painted on it shines brightly in the moonlight. I am noisy with my husband in the hot summer, and we will never forget each other." In particular, Yu Xin, an outstanding poet from the Liang Dynasty to the Northern Zhou Dynasty, once wrote "Ode to the Painting Screen" during the Liang Dynasty. Twenty-five poems vividly depict the beautiful scenes on the screen.

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