Poetry is a literary genre that highly uses rich and novel imagination and distinctive rhythm language to praise life and express feelings. It has the functions of "expressing aspirations", "predestined feelings" and "simultaneous emotions". This lyric problem is almost produced at the same time as human language and is the earliest literary style in the history of literature.
Poetry can be divided into lyric poetry, narrative poetry and philosophical poetry according to its contents and forms of expression. According to the forms of expression, poetry can be divided into metrical poems, free poems, folk songs and prose poems.
Modern poetry is the modern emotion that modern people feel in modern life, and it is a set of sentences arranged by modern words. Therefore, modern poetry is about the feelings of our times, and it is written in modern language (that is, modern Chinese, not classical Chinese). This is the most basic feature of modern poetry.
Modern poetry also has the following important features:
1, content: beautiful imagination, extraordinary in the ordinary;
2. Ideologically: Write touching feelings. In other words, personal feelings and experiences should be added;
3. Format: If you want to branch, you can branch by sentence or by content.
The format of poetry is also a problem that must be paid attention to, except writing by content or sentence, 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; And exaggeration, symbol.
The application of skills such as synaesthesia 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 article "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".