Fiction in poetry

Fiction in poetry

Wen/Xing Ye's son

In people's general understanding, it is acknowledged that novels are fiction, or that fiction is the mainstay. But for poetry, people think it is true, because it expresses the author's true feelings, so they don't admit that it is fiction, or they never explicitly put forward the view that poetry is fiction. In fact, this is a misunderstanding, and poetry is also fiction, or fiction with many components. It should be said that only the feelings and emotions of poetry are true, and the rest are skills. Including structure, image, scene, characters, etc. , is the result of writing skills and imagination deployment. Even if there are realistic parts, they are processed, trimmed, adjusted and colored, not real-life scenes. This is consistent with fiction in writing novels. People who write poems will revise their works again and again until they are finished. What is decoration, that is, blending, installing, polishing and coloring to make it a work of art, which may have become a delicate jade, but how can it still be a stone you have seen? So artistic processing is fiction. Therefore, readers should never take the specific things described in the poem seriously, which is just the author's technique. But the purpose of this fiction is to accurately express the author's thoughts, feelings and emotions, and finally use these emotional contagion readers. Therefore, readers only need to take seriously the thoughts and feelings in the poem. I just want to make it clear that poetry is fictional, because it is too easy for people to associate the content of poetry with the author, which is a big misunderstanding. For example, the author wrote in a poem that he (she) stared at the sky, and you wouldn't believe it. If he (she) wrote that he (she) went to catch fish in the river, you would believe it. In fact, he didn't go anywhere and did nothing. He imagined it in his mind. He wrote about going to Nanshan, unless he told you in the title that he was traveling, then he really went to Nanshan. Otherwise, he just used his imagination to move Nanshan into his poems to make scenes, backgrounds and bedding. Don't take it seriously Everyone who writes poetry knows that this is called imaginative writing. Of course, the problem of poetry fiction is a problem that exists in various situations and is a very complicated problem. But in short, we should have a conceptual understanding: poetry is also true and false, and it is a work of art created by individuals, not physical objects.