Lyric poetry directly expresses the author's thoughts and feelings, reveals the inner world of the characters, and pays attention to the expression of feelings instead of the description of characters and plots. Natural scenery is lyrical or vivid, such as "thousands of miles of warblers sing green and reflect red, the water town is full of wine flags, and the 480 halls in the southern dynasties are in the misty rain"; Narrative poems describe stories, shape characters and reflect people's knowledge, ideals and aspirations. Emotion flows in the narrative language of poetry, such as Mulan's poems. Mulan joined the army for her father, disguised herself as a man, and made meritorious service in her hometown, which reflected an aesthetic pursuit and ideal value in the poem.
Metric poetry is a poem written according to certain sentence patterns and phonological rules. China's five-character poems, seven-character quatrains, five-character poems and European sonnets are all metrical poems, which pay attention to hierarchy, level, antithesis and rhyme. Free verse is a new poem, which only requires harmonious rhythm and has no strict requirements on sentence patterns and phonology, such as Xu Zhimo's Farewell to Cambridge.
In addition to the general characteristics of language art, poetry also has strong lyricism, which forms the artistic conception of poetry. There are deep emotions and implicit and rich artistic conception between the lines. The language of poetry is the most concise and beautiful, and in a narrow space, concise and exact language reflects the endless artistic charm. Prose is generally divided into lyric prose, narrative prose and argumentative prose.
The main characteristics of prose are freedom and flexibility, different themes, techniques and styles, which are related to the author's personal interests, and the genre of prose is not limited by time and space. Another feature is that the shape is scattered and the spirit is not scattered. The theme of prose is the "spirit" of the article. A novel has three basic elements: characters, plot and environment.
An important feature of the novel is to create characters through various techniques, which can describe the appearance of characters from different angles and analyze their inner world. Typical characters are the core of a novel.
Plot plays an important role in works of art, and it is also required in movies and plays. However, due to the limitation of space and time, plot is relatively concentrated. However, the plot of the novel is complex and diverse, full of twists and turns, implicit and profound, which should be true in fiction, that is, reasonable.
Environment is also an important factor in the novel. Environment is indispensable for shaping characters and displaying plots. The environment of the novel is more detailed, concrete and rich than other kinds of art.
The aesthetic value of novels lies in structure and literary talent. Structure is the organization of written language, and literary talent is the accuracy, vividness and image of language. Excellent novels can perfectly embody the theme through reasonable language arrangement, so that their works have greater artistic charm.