It is a poem written in a certain format and rules. It has strict rules on the number of lines, the number of words (or syllables), the tone and rhyme, the antithesis of words and the arrangement of sentence patterns. Such as the metrical poems, quatrains and songs in China's ancient poems and the European sonnets.
Second, 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.
Third, 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, and it does not rhyme, such as Lu Xun's Weeds.
Fourth, rhyming poems
As the name implies, it is a literary genre, which generally means that the end of each line of poetry must rhyme, and the poem reads like a ballad. Rhyme here refers to modern rhyme, which belongs to a new style of poetry, similar to the popular rhyme of Fang on the Internet. Debuted after 2000.
Extended data
First, the characteristics of modern poetry are:
1, free form;
2. The connotation is open;
3. Image management is more important than rhetoric;
4. It has a high degree of generality, vivid image, strong lyricism, musical harmony and branch arrangement in form.
Second, the appreciation of modern poetry should mainly start from the following aspects.
1, language
Language is the basic material of all literary works. Poetry pays special attention to the use of language, because the shaping of artistic image, the creation of artistic conception and the transmission of emotion all depend on language. The language of poetry requires the simplest words to convey as much content as possible, which makes the language of poetry concise, implicit and jumping.
Step 2: Image
Poetry reflects life and expresses feelings through artistic images. To appreciate poetry, we must accurately grasp the artistic images in poetry: some poems express their emotions by depicting concrete and vivid images; Some poems, although they do not depict specific images, can arouse readers' imagination; Some poems not only depict concrete images, but also express their thoughts and feelings.
3. Emotion
Poetry usually expresses feelings and wishes, and we must deeply understand the emotional connotation of poetry when we appreciate it. Specifically, it is to understand the author's feelings from the image and artistic conception of poetry.
The thoughts and feelings of some poems are reflected by metaphors and symbolic meanings. To understand the thoughts and feelings of this kind of poetry, we must first expand association and imagination, accurately grasp the connotation of poetic images, and thus deepen our understanding of feelings.
4. Artistic features
The artistic features of poetry mainly refer to lyrical means, allusion, conception and expression. To appreciate poetry, we should master the common means of expression and artistic skills of poetry, such as personification, metaphor, metonymy, exaggeration, contrast, symbol, etc., as well as writing static with movement, seeing the big with smallness, combining reality with reality, setting things off and expressing will.