From the way of narrative content, it can be divided into lyric poetry and narrative poetry;
From the format of poetry, it can be divided into metrical poetry, free poetry and prose poetry;
From the form of creation, it can be divided into folk songs, lyrics and so on;
According to readers, it can be divided into youth poems and children's poems.
From the ideological content of poetry, it can be divided into political poems, political satire poems, love poems and so on.
Lyric poetry is a kind of poetry that reflects social life by expressing the author's thoughts and feelings. Most of the numerous poems in ancient and modern times are lyric poems. Lyrics generally do not have complete stories and specific characters, nor do they aim at telling stories and portraying characters. Mainly lies in the direct expression of the author's thoughts and feelings, the experience and feelings of life, telling the author's joys and sorrows.
There are many ways to express feelings, such as expressing one's mind directly, expressing one's will through "entrustment", using the first person and the third person, etc. According to its content, it can be divided into political lyrics, general lyrics, landscape poems and object-chanting poems. According to the length, it can be divided into long lyric poems and short lyric poems.
Narrative poetry is a kind of poetry that tells stories and describes characters in the language and form of poetry. Narrative poetry also has a strong lyrical component, but its narrative is the first, and its lyricism is to better narrative. Narrative poems generally have complete story lines and vivid characters.
However, it is not the same as a novel. It does not explain the development process of characters and events in detail like novels, nor does it describe all aspects of characters in detail. But to grasp the poetic part and paint it with strong colors. The plot of narrative poems is mostly jumping, and the description of characters is mostly a combination of general description and key description.
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In ancient times, when information technology was underdeveloped, it was very inconvenient for people to transmit information from one area to another, so they compiled the written poems into songs and the poems came from people's mouths. Poetry originated from ancient social life, which is a rhythmic and emotional language form due to labor production, sex and primitive religion.
Poetry is the lyrics. In actual performances, it is always sung with music and dance. Later, poetry, song, music and dance developed independently and became independent adults. Distinguish songs from poems by entering music or not. Music is a song, but poetry is not.
Poetry is a kind of language art, which is differentiated from songs, and songs are a kind of music literature with a long history. The Book of Songs is sung with music. Technically, it is a song. Because of this, The Book of Songs is regarded by scholars as a symbol of the maturity of China's music literature.
Poetry is the oldest and most literary style, which comes from ancient labor songs (later developed into folk songs) and sacrificial eulogy. Poetry used to be a general term for poetry and songs, and poetry combined with music and dance was called poetry.
China's poems have a long history and rich heritage, such as The Book of Songs, Songs of the South, Han Yuefu and the works of countless poets. European poetry originated from Homer and Sappho in ancient Greece, Virgil and Horace in ancient Rome.
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