Ancient poetry, that is, China's ancient poetry, refers to China's poetry works before the Opium War 1840. Its original intention is a poem written by the ancients. Broadly speaking, China's ancient poems include poems, words and Sanqu written by the ancients. In a narrow sense, ancient poetry only refers to ancient poetry and modern poetry written by ancient people. [ 1]
1, ancient poetry. This is a poetic genre. Judging from the number of words in poetry, there are four-character poems, five-character poems and seven-character poems.
2. Modern poetry, also known as modern poetry and metrical poetry, is a genre of Chinese poetry that pays attention to fairness, antithesis and rhyme. In order to distinguish it from classical poetry, it has the name of modern style.
3. Text. Ci is a unique poetic style, which sprouted in the Southern Dynasties and is a new literary style in the Sui and Tang Dynasties. In the Song Dynasty, after a long period of continuous development, Ci entered its heyday.
4. Sanqu. A form of verse that appeared in the Southern Song Dynasty and the Jin Dynasty and prevailed in the Yuan Dynasty was formed under the influence of folk songs, and its syntax was more flexible than words.
5. Modern poetry. Also known as "vernacular poetry", it can be traced back to the late Qing Dynasty, and it is a kind of poetry. Compared with classical poetry, although it is written for feeling things, it is generally informal in format and rhythm.
According to whether there are complete stories: lyric poems and narrative poems;
According to the performance content: pastoral poetry, landscape poetry, satirical poetry, epic, pastoral, elegy, ode, philosophical poetry;
According to the forms of expression, it can be divided into ancient poems, modern poems, metrical poems, metrical poems, quatrains, arranged poems, recitation poems, limerick poems, free poems, sonnets, ballads, folk songs, nursery rhymes and prose poems.
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Metric poetry, also known as modern poetry, is a kind of ancient poetry in China and a poetic style formed after the Tang Dynasty, which is mainly divided into quatrains and metrical poems. According to the number of words in each sentence, it can be divided into five words and seven words. Style and sentence patterns have certain norms, phonology has certain laws, and the changes in use also need to abide by certain laws.
Free verse is a kind of poem with irregular syllables, rhythms and other forms of design. It pursues "organic form" and relies on the natural rhythm of speech. This kind of speech is "natural" to the theme and feelings of the poem. Free verse is not a modern invention, but with the arrival of modernism, it occupies an important position and constitutes a rebellion against the fixed form of19th century poetry. Free verse has no external form to use, and it may be the most difficult to write well compared with previous poems.
Narrative poetry is a poetic genre. It depicts characters in the form of poems and expresses emotions by writing people's narratives. Compared with novels and plays, its plot is generally simple. This genre contains stories, characters and other novel contents, and has the characteristics of lyric poetry. The plot is complete and concentrated, the characters are typical, poetic, concise, and the life scene is clear.