There are standards because poetry has a certain rhythm and rhythm from the day it appears. Most of the original poems are used for singing, so it is better to call them "Quzi Ci" or folk songs. I like the Book of Songs, Chu Ci, Tang Poetry and Song Ci Yuan Qu, Journey to the West and so on. All the poems can be sung.
From these poems, we can try to find the standard of poetry:
As a poem, it should be rhythmic, rhyming, even and even, and the metrical quatrains should be phrased and emphasized. With the emergence of some modern poets such as the Crescent School, the most basic requirement of poetry is to pay attention to meter and rhythm. In these respects, poetry has standards.
We can look at the poems of the pre-Qin period:
Do it at sunrise and rest at sunset,
A well can have water to drink, and crops will not be hungry.
This kind of life is uncomfortable, and no one envies the power of the emperor.
Look at The Book of Songs again;
Guan Heming's osprey, accompanied by the small continent of the river. A beautiful and virtuous woman is a good spouse of a gentleman.
Mix shepherd's purse and salvage it from left to right. A beautiful and virtuous woman wakes up to pursue her.
If you can't pursue it, the black nightclub misses her during the day. Miss Long, I can't sleep over and over again.
Mix shepherd's purse and choose from left to right. A beautiful and virtuous woman came to her with a couple and a couple.
Pull shepherd's purse from left to right. A beautiful and virtuous woman rings the bell to please her.
The quatrains and rhymes of Tang poetry can be said to be the most rigorous and rhythmic style in the field of poetry:
(Du Fu's "Spring Hope")
Although a country is divided, mountains and rivers still exist, and the spring of trees and grass is back (even, even, even. Rhyme)
Petals shed like tears, and lonely birds sang their sadness (flat and flat, flat and flat. Rhyme)
After three months of war, a message from my hometown is worth a ton of gold (even, even, even. Rhyme)
I stroke my white hair. It has become too thin to support the hairpin any longer (flat and flat, flat and flat. Rhyme praise: ancient rhyme an, en rhyme)
Most of the Song lyrics are songs. In order to sing better, most of the words are limited:
Although there is no limit to the number of words in crescent school metrical poems, they generally rhyme neatly and symmetrically for aesthetic feeling and recitation. Wen Yiduo made the most important contribution to the poetry theory of Crescent Society. He systematically put forward the theory of new metrical poetry, thinking that poetry is made, advocating dancing with the shackles of metrical, and put forward the famous "three beauties", namely "the beauty of music" (syllables), "the beauty of painting" (words) and "the beauty of architecture" (symmetrical sections and neat sentences):
("Farewell to Cambridge" Xu Zhimo)
I left quietly,
When I came softly;
I waved gently,
Say goodbye to the western clouds.
Golden willow by the river,
Is the bride in the sunset;
Shadows in the waves,
Ripple in my heart.
Green grass on the soft mud,
Oily, swaying at the bottom of the water;
In the soft waves of Cambridge,
I would like to be an aquatic plant!
A pool in the shade of elm trees,
Not a clear spring, but a rainbow in the sky;
Crushed between floating algae,
Precipitate a rainbow-like dream.
Looking for dreams? Lift a long pole,
Back to the green grass;
Full of stars,
Play songs in a starry place.
But I can't play songs,
Quiet is a farewell flute;
Summer insects are also silent for me,
Silence is Cambridge tonight!
I left quietly,
Just as I came quietly;
I waved my sleeve,
Don't take away a cloud.
After reading the introduction and meter above, modern poetry and modern poetry are not poems. When we write poetry, do we have to write poetry according to the above standards? So does poetry have to be standardized?
Still the first answer, yes or no, we discussed the formal standard of poetry earlier. Then let's look at poems without standards.
Look at this poem first, don't talk about antithesis, don't talk about meter, is this a poem?
Some people say that it is a poem because it rhymes.
Look at this poem again. It doesn't talk about antithesis, rhyme or even rhyme. Is it a poem?
Some people say it's a poem, some people say it's not, and some people say it's a poem with emotional lines. Well, that's a poem.
("Feeling" Gu Cheng)
The sky is gray.
The road is gray.
This building is gray.
The rain is gray.
In the ashes
Walk past two children
brilliant/bright red
aqua
Is this still a poem? This poem is a poem without antithesis, rhyme, rhyme or even emotion.
Of course, according to the standards of some people's poems, this is not a poem, but why is it recognized as a poem? So is there a low standard for poetry?
Poetry has its own standards, and poetry has its own unique expression and skills. For example, the above-mentioned Book of Songs, Tang Poems, Song Ci Yuan Qu should all rhyme, have meter, level and formal rhythm.
There is no standard in poetry, as the ancients said: Poetry expresses ambition, and poetry itself is a matter of the masses and folk customs. The reason why China lacks poetry in modern times is because of this poem. The standard of writing poetry is set as the standard of poetry, and the standard of reading poetry is set as the standard of poetry.
Poetry is nothing more than expressing a feeling, seeing and thinking. I don't think poetry is necessarily standard.
"The white clouds in the sky are really white." Isn't this a poem? Why not poetry? Aren't the clouds in the sky white? If you are depressed, will you say that the clouds in the sky are really white? Will you have the heart to see the clouds? Isn't this an expression of emotion?
Isn't it just a poem "Great country, extending in all directions"? I think it is a good poem to continue writing like this. Rhyme is the first choice, followed by meter, and then emotional fullness. What a broad mind, what a great spirit, how full of emotion.
Poetry belongs to everyone. Poetry belongs to intellectuals and folk customs. Let's start writing poems from today. We don't need rules, skills, culture, a thousand words or shocking stories.
As long as you write, that's your emotion and that's your poem.
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I knew there would be an argument when there was no standard for writing this poem.
In fact, I have my own arguments, and I didn't say that poetry must be inaccurate. On the contrary, I introduced most forms of poetry from ancient times to the present.
In fact, most of my poems are rhythmic, and I also write some doggerel, which also pays great attention to rhythm. I also like those beautiful poems, but I also like those free poems. Sometimes it's not easy to write casually.
I just think that poetry should not stick to form, but should focus on writing what you want to write and expressing what you want to express.
For example, you specify the month. I like this bright moon/I like to see my hometown/I like to see my hometown in the universe/I like an old saying/I like to stir somewhere in the universe.
If you say that such a poem is not a good poem, it must be much worse than Li Bai's thinking of quiet night. But in your world, this is your emotion, this is the real you, and you write real sentences, so isn't your truest sentence the most suitable for you?
The following is an answer to the comments of netizens:
@ Sun:
second floor
How to write a poem is really tangled.
A:
Although what I write here is a bit extreme, you can write poetry as long as you read more and think more. You can write if you want. Slowly, the poem you write is your own poem. Don't imitate them. Be yourself.
@ 丫丫丫丫丫:
second floor[British English]; third floor[American English]
Poetry is noble! Being fucked like this by you is simply a cultural degradation!
A:
I think poetry is folk. Throughout Chinese civilization, the origin of poetry and good poetry are well understood. Only now people just put poetry on the shelf, making it more and more obscure, dim and divorced from the public.
@ Snow Blows Taoyuan:
Fourth Floor
That's how poetry sucks. I ate three meals today, also called poetry. Everyone in the world is a poet.
A:
I really hope everyone in the world is poetic, poetic, poetic, poetic. Even if you write poorly, you write poetry and you like poetry. You will gradually become poetic, poetic, poetic, poetic.
Think about it. One day, the small advertisement was written in poetic language. Isn't that beautiful?
@ Snow Blows Taoyuan:
Fifth Floor
Besides, the feeling of "Gu Cheng" is a masterpiece of modern poetry. It is not that there is no emotion, but that some people will not come out. Modern poetry has no formal requirements, but it doesn't mean that it can be scribbled. Vernacular is also called poetry, and the poem is really finished.
A:
I also like this poem better, so I quote it just to illustrate the diversity and infinite possibilities of poetry.
@ 丫丫丫丫丫:
Seventh Floor
Is this an episode? This cultural degeneration has also made the front page! ! ! ! !
A:
What I write here is really a bit extreme, but I hope that the poetry culture can blossom and bear fruit, write what I see and express my feelings. I think it is wrong and reasonable to look at things without prejudice.
@ 京京京京:
The eighth floor
Poetry has no standards. If you write with emotion and write well, yours will become the standard.
A:
In fact, the details of life, distractions, micro-views, strange words and feelings are the basis of a good poem. Without these foundations, it is even more irregular to write, and I don't think it is a good poem.
@ Jiangqiao:
Ninth floor
Many schools of modern poetry have different standards, which also leads to its difficult development.
A:
Maybe it's also on the one hand. In fact, I also suggest that poetry should be standardized, but I also hope that some types of poetry can have a good development platform. For example, the metrical poem advocated by the Crescent School is a very popular genre, but it is slowly moving away from the so-called orthodoxy. We can only say that the origin of freedom and the West is still in the learning stage, and the differences between Chinese and Western cultures make free verse seem strange in the unique aesthetic view of China culture.
Of course, the conflict and mutual penetration of these cultural schools can give us more opportunities and ways. After all, different themes and different forms of poetic expression all have their own unique interests.
@ Jiangqiao:
I prefer the poems of the crescent school. It's best to have a certain standard, just like a language, with some recognized grammar, and then create it on this basis.
A:
This kind of formal beauty is unique to China culture, and this kind of beauty is certainly recognized.
Other countries in the world rarely show this kind of formal beauty, but it does not prevent other countries from having good poems.
For example, Tagore's prose poems and Ji Bolun's argumentative poems. There are also some metrical poems abroad, such as sonnets, sonnets and some foreign metrical poems with neat and rhythmic forms.