To understand a poem, we must first understand the background of its generation. The writer's life experience and creative style. It can be said that every poem has a background and an opportunity to stimulate the poet's creation. For example, "Dayan River, My Nanny" is an autobiographical lyric poem 1933 written by Ai Qing because of her arrest and heavy snow, which reminds her of the bleak Dayan River. Knowing this is very helpful to understand the whole poem. Of course, not all poems need a creative background, mainly from the content of the poem itself, which needs to be changed according to the specific situation.
Second, we must grasp the image.
Modern poetry reflects life and expresses feelings through vivid artistic images. Reading and appreciating poetry requires careful analysis, taste, understanding and grasping this image.
Third, we should understand emotions.
Emotion is the life and soul of poetry, the poet's thoughts and feelings, or joy, or sadness, or anger, or sadness? Are soaked between the lines of the poem. Only when we have a good understanding of the poet's feelings and tone in the poem can we accurately understand the theme of the poem. In reading, we can grasp the implication and inspire readers to understand the author's feelings from the image and artistic conception of poetry. For example, in Ai Qing's I Love This Land, the image of "a bird" created in the poem makes people feel the ups and downs, sadness and persistent love experienced by the poet, and also describes the suffering of the earth, the people's grief and indignation, and their yearning and hope for light. Only by accurately escorting the sentiment of poetry can we accurately grasp the theme of poetry.