There are many ways to express the classification of modern poetry. According to the form, it can be divided into free verse and metrical verse. At present, the former dominates, but the author is more optimistic about the latter. According to genre, it can be divided into fairy tale poems, fable poems, prose poems and verse poems. According to the way of expression, it can be divided into narrative poetry, reasoning poetry and lyric poetry, and the latter is the main theme at present.
If divided by length, it can be divided into micro-poems, short poems, short poems and long poems. As for these categories, there is no doubt in the critics, but the author thinks that this classification is too general and should be further refined, that is, adding Chinese poems and giant poems.
First of all, let's talk about poems. At present, it is generally believed that within ten lines, about a hundred words are small poems. It came into being after the May 4th Movement, roughly between1921-1925, and was influenced by the Indian poet Tagore's Birds. Representative figures are Bing Xin and Zong Baihua, and representative poems are Stars, Spring Water and Walking Clouds.
Contemporary short poems originated from China's short poems. It is generally believed that the number of words within three lines is limited to 30. Their characteristics are short and pithy, and they often win with a philosophical sentence. Macroscopically, micro-poems are subordinate to short poems, and both of them are subordinate to short poems.
In the past, the setting of long poems was generally based on forty behavior standards-that is, more than forty lines were long poems. However, in the context of modern Chinese, images are rich, vocabulary is developed, and the poet's feelings are like waves. This standard is too broad, which makes long poems easy to flood and affects the charm and development of long poems as a poetic style. As we all know, the length of novels is often limited to 10,000 words, short stories to 10,000 words, novellas to 100,000 words, and the minimum standard for novels is more than 100,000 words.