As for why this happens, some people think that poetry, the oldest literary style, is no longer in line with the reading habits of contemporary people. I don't think so. China is a country of poetry, and its position has been very important for thousands of years. If we want to investigate the reasons for the decline of his poems, I think the main reason is that there are fewer and fewer good poems and poems are getting farther and farther away from people's lives.
Poetry is the main carrier for human beings to express and vent their feelings and express and communicate their feelings. "History? There is a proverb in Yu Shu: "Poetry expresses ambition, song expresses ambition, sound is eternal, and law and harmony. "There will be the Book of Rites? Music also wrote: "Poetry expresses ambition; Song, chanting its voice; Dance, move its capacity; The three are based on the heart, and then the instrument follows it. "The biggest drawback of contemporary poetry is that it is pale in thought and poor in emotion. I rarely see the elements of expression and lyricism, but I groan and pretend to be more elegant. It doesn't seem like poetry to write a simple and clear meaning, and it doesn't seem that the poet's level can be reflected without it. This is the main reason why fewer and fewer people read poetry today.
Careful people can easily find that poems handed down from ancient times to the present are easy to recite. The Book of Songs? Qin Feng, "Cang, the Millennium is frost. The so-called Iraqis are on the water side. "Simple words convey rich artistic conception and lovers' thoughts, which are long and elegant. In the Tang Dynasty, poetry reached its peak. The main theme of this era is that poetry pays great attention to rhythm and forms a kind of musical beauty.
Even in modern times, poetry advocates simplicity. Xu Zhimo's masterpiece Farewell to Cambridge is a very simple vocabulary, but it is regarded as a model. Wen Yiduo, a contemporary poet of Xu Zhimo, advocated "three beauties". 1926 in may, he wrote in Beijing morning post? The meter of poetry is published in the Collection of Poems. This paper advocates the standardization and decimal system of China's modern new poetry creation, and points out that poetry includes not only the beauty of music (syllables), painting (words), but also the beauty of architecture (symmetry of paragraphs and uniformity of sentences). Now these fine traditions have been abandoned, leaving some poets with narcissism and self-comfort in a closed interval.
"Wen Xin Diao Long? Yuefu said: "Where music is poetry, poetry is a song." "Poetry" and "song" are inseparable from the beginning, and only when they are combined can they be called "poetry". In other words, poetry should be catchy and can be used for singing. China's first poetry collection, The Book of Songs, has been published for 2,500 years, and it is still pleasing to read. Because of this, it shows great vitality.
In the early 1980s, "misty poetry" began to rise, which set off a poetry craze and promoted the status of poetry in literature. This is a rebellious and avant-garde creative trend, and poets like to use symbolism to express uncertainty in their works. Bei Dao, Shu Ting and Gu Cheng are the representative poets of this kind of poetry. Although this poetic "image" is widely used, it is very popular because of its clear ideology and vivid context. For example, Shu Ting's To Oak, "If I love you, I will never learn to climb the Campbell flower and show off myself with your tall branches;" If I love you, I will never learn from infatuated birds and repeat monotonous songs for the shade … "is a beautiful and lyrical love poem, which expresses a brand-new view of love through inner monologue.
However, in the 1990s, "new generation" and "post-new generation" schools appeared. These schools of poetry are anti-sublime and anti-hero in values, anti-elegance and anti-image in art, the concept of poetry is subverted, things that have been carried for thousands of years are gone forever, the word order is reversed, and sentences are forcibly disassembled, which not only fails to see the beauty of music, but even makes it difficult for readers to understand.
But is there really no market for poetry today? Is it really hopeless? Don't! This year's Wenchuan earthquake produced some excellent poems. Many of the authors of these poems are netizens. They didn't know any creative skills at first, but they wrote touching poems, which is a good wake-up call and a powerful medicine for today's poetry circles. I remember a poem that said, "Hold your mother's hand, son." The road to heaven is too dark, and mother is afraid that you will touch your head. Hold your mother's hand and let her accompany you ... "Reprinted everywhere on the Internet, frequently recited on TV, making people cry.
After the Wenchuan earthquake, poetry showed signs of short-term recovery for the simple reason that poetry is an emotional literary genre, which reflects social life and emotional experience in a lyrical way. Zhao Benfu, a famous writer, thinks that poetry is the fastest way to express emotions directly. After the earthquake, there was a phenomenon that "you can write poetry even if you can't write poetry". Many farmers in disaster areas also use poetry to express their feelings, which looks like a jingle, but you can't deny that it is a very full expression and there is no way.
Therefore, as long as poets can regain the fine tradition of poetry and reflect and pay attention to people's livelihood, they are not afraid of no market.