I. Different definitions
Modern poetry
Modern poetry, also known as "vernacular poetry", can be traced back to the late Qing Dynasty, which is a kind of poetry. Compared with classical poetry, although they are all written for feeling things, they are generally informal in format and rhythm.
Ancient poetry
Classical poetry, a genre of China's ancient poetry, also known as classical poetry or archaism, refers to a poetic genre that originated before the Tang Dynasty and was opposite to the modern poetry that appeared in the Tang Dynasty. Its characteristic is that the metrical restrictions are not too strict.
Second, the form is different.
Modern poetry
Modern poetry is free in form and rich in connotation, and image management is more important than rhetoric application. Compared with ancient poetry, although they all feel things and reflect the soul, they completely break through the characteristics of ancient poetry, which are "gentle and sincere, with no complaints", and emphasize more on free and open, straightforward statements and intangible communication between reason and reason.
Ancient poetry
Ancient poetry (ancient poetry) has a fixed poem and style. Compared with modern poetry, the metrical restrictions of ancient poetry are less. The length can be long or short, and the rhyme is more free and flexible. There are four words, five words, seven words, miscellaneous words and other forms. The ancient poems after the Han and Wei Dynasties are generally dominated by five or seven words, with certain rhyme and inflections.
Third, the style of writing and the expression of ideas are different.
Modern poetry
Freelance writing is more suitable for expressing modern people's feelings. Emphasize the spirit of freedom and openness, and communicate "between the sensible and the intangible" with straightforward situational statements. The mainstream of modern poetry is free verse. Free verse is the product of the May 4th New Culture Movement, which uses vernacular in form, breaking the shackles of old-style poetry, and mainly reflects new life and expresses new ideas in content.
Ancient poetry
The language is concise and rich in connotation. Poets are all formed by feeling things, which is a reflection of the soul. "Classical Poetry" expresses tenderness, tenderness, sadness and no resentment with the poetic view of "thinking innocently", emphasizing "between solvable and unsolvable".
Expand the scope of modern poetry
1, narrative poem
There are relatively complete story lines and characters in poetry, which are usually expressed by the poet's passionate singing style. Epic, story poem and poetic novel all belong to this category.
2. Lyrics
Social life is mainly reflected by directly expressing the poet's thoughts and feelings, and it is not required to describe complete stories and characters. Such as love songs, carols, elegies, elegies, pastoral songs, satirical poems, etc.
3. Free verse
It is a newly developed poetic style in modern Europe and America. It is not limited by metrical rules, has no fixed format, pays attention to natural and internal rhythm, and uses rhymes roughly similar or without rhymes. The number of words, lines, sentence patterns and tones are relatively free, and the language is relatively popular. Whitman, an American poet (1819-1892), is the founder of European and American free verse, and Leaves of Grass is his main collection of poems. This poetic style has also become popular in China since the May 4th Movement.
4. Prose poetry
It is a literary genre with the characteristics of both prose and poetry. There are poetic artistic conception and passion in the works, which are often full of philosophy, paying attention to the rhythm of nature and the beauty of music. The length is short, like prose, without branches and rhyme.
5. rhyming poems
Rhyme belongs to a literary genre. As the name implies, it generally means that the end of a poem must rhyme and read as catchy as a ballad, regardless of the beat and pace.
Rhyme poetry here refers to modern rhyme poetry, which belongs to a new type of poetry, rhyming new poetry, with regular rhyme but asymmetrical pace (rhythm). Wang Guozhen is the most representative.
At present, there are Ding Xiang (northern ronin), Qiu Le and Shen Hongzhou who inherit this poetic style. Theoretically, Xiao Qu and Sun's research group on metrical new poetry made a detailed study and explanation of modern metrical poetry and the theory of metrical poetry.