Let's take Yang Wanli's A Child Making Ice as an example to talk about rewriting ancient poetry. First, we should understand the artistic conception of poetry. The whole poem highlights a "naive" word. Childishness and fun can make a child forget the cold in winter and keep his vitality and happiness as always.
2. Grasp the original intention of ancient poetry.
Rewriting an ancient poem into a short essay should not only follow the principle of not changing the content and emotion of the poem, but also follow the principle that rewriting is not equal to translation. To turn a short twenty-eight words into a short essay of three or four hundred words, we need to fully mobilize our imagination. From the topic, we can determine the necessary characters: children; An indispensable plot: playing with ice. Reading through ancient poems, we can also determine the essential plot: deicing; Colored silk penetrates ice, breaks ice, etc. When rewriting, you should use your imagination to describe these characters and plots concretely.
3. Create the beginning and end of the plot content.
Since the genre has changed from ancient poetry to short prose, writing an article should have a beginning and an end. We can start with the time, place and environment where things happened. Reading through the whole poem, you will find that the scene of "breaking the ice for a play" took place on a cold morning. Therefore, at the beginning of the essay, we can choose to describe the environment and write this cold feeling, which will cause the following.
4. Imagine boldly and write "poetry" concretely.
In Children Making Ice, we can write it in the order of things, like poetry, first deicing, then playing with ice, and then breaking the ice. When unfolding the plot, we should not only be meticulous and appropriate, but also grasp the details and boldly imagine to supplement the dialogue, expression, action and psychology of the characters and enrich the picture.
Pay attention to the following points when rewriting:
(1) The rewritten content cannot be divorced from the original meaning of ancient poetry.
(2) Imagination and innovation can be carried out appropriately.
(3) Appropriate use of some rhetorical devices.
(4) When describing characters, language description, psychological description and action description can be used appropriately.
(5) background materials such as seasonal characteristics, weather conditions, geographical environment, identity of people, and causes of events can be appropriately supplemented.