Poetry used to be the mainstream in the history of literature, and then there were prose, novels and plays. It can be said that poetry is the product of literary childhood, and it is also an immature style.
In ancient times, poetry was the main popular literary style among the people, and even before the invention of writing, there was poetry. With written records, poetry has developed unprecedentedly. Poetry can be spread not only because words represent certain meanings, but also because of the background of music, which has a strong phonological beauty. Therefore, many times, poetry is used to sing, not to ponder the rhythm and choose words and sentences. When the professional literati wrote poems and lyrics, poetry became the favorite of the literati, and together with the emperor, it was unbearable to write poems and lyrics. Perhaps, because the threshold for writing poems and lyrics is too low, scholars should be eager to try.
Poetry is relatively short, in line with musical rhythm and rhythmic beauty, and it can also put some aesthetic images together to reflect a certain artistic conception. Seemingly mysterious, in fact, as long as well-trained children can make certain poems, it's no big deal. It is said that there are high and low levels of poetry, and children who are impressive in poetry are prodigies, while educated adults who write poetry and lyrics will be able to withstand scrutiny. In fact, it's just a list of images, and the mutual praise between scholars makes poetry popular. Many so-called good poems are not really that good, but also have faults and problems. However, the literati flatter each other, which covers up the shortcomings and problems, and even becomes popular.
Poetry is short and suitable for pondering. Du Fu said, "You can sing a word and break several whiskers." Lament, and Jia Dao also has a story of "scrutiny", which seems to be bitter, and also leaves a certain model for later generations to write poems and lyrics. In fact, it is not that difficult at all, and even the AI ? ? of future generations can make poems, which can be confused with the real. In other words, it is difficult to write poems and lyrics, but it is childish to list some images with certain feelings. There is no huge narrative, nor hundreds of thousands of words, basically no good story and great artistic conception. Of course, there are also long narrative poems, which are close to prose. However, poetry itself is not a mature style, and it is ok as a style for literati to play. If it is juxtaposed with novels and becomes the main literary style, it will be difficult to grasp it, and it will even be ridiculed as the disappearance of creative talents.
There used to be a popular style of old cadres, that is, the poems written by retired veteran cadres were mostly of the level of limerick, or imitated one or two uncommon ancient poems to express their arms, which was not artistic at all, and even became literary rubbish. As for the students to imitate ancient poetry and re-create a so-called originality, it is even more a game. In the Tang Dynasty, poetry was flourishing, and many people wrote the same theme, and even quoted other people's sentences repeatedly, saying that it was practical, but it was plagiarism. After the image is fixed, there will be many quotations from later generations, which will lack new ideas. Tao Yuanming's images of chrysanthemum, Dongli and Nanshan have been quoted by many poets and poets in later generations, saying that they are allusions, but they are actually just arty twists and turns.
Should poetry be written in vernacular? Of course not, it needs implication and obvious aesthetic tendency. However, the length of poetry is too short, and there is no capacity for novels or prose, which is limited to an aesthetic style. Besides, people write poems and lyrics, and the things and scenery written by Otawa's predecessors are repeated, but they still write, but they just have the format of poetry, but they don't have the meaning of classical poetry, and of course they just wait. After the Tang and Song Dynasties, don't read poetry, there is basically nothing to see. That is to say, the people who compiled the history of literature were very clever, and listed Tang poetry and Song poetry as models of those times. After that time, of course, there were good poems, but they lacked cultural soil. In other words, the Tang and Song Dynasties were a time of brilliant poetry, which was limited to the aesthetics among literati and had nothing to do with illiterate people. People who can't read can't appreciate the beauty of poetry, but they can only hear stories told by books and watch stories told in operas. In this way, we can see the spring and white snow attribute of poetry and the lower Liba attribute of novels and plays.
Although there are different levels of poetry writing, poetry writing also pays attention to inspiration, but the structural characteristics of poetry itself make people fall into the aesthetic trap of combining rhythm and content, and can't extricate themselves. Who said that literary works must be the style of poetry? Who says that poetry must be advanced and novels must be low? To put it bluntly, it is still the literati who turned poetry into a tool for the ruling class to amuse themselves, and raised it to a certain height, thus greatly divorced from the people. This is also the reason why poetry pays attention to the text content and ignores the musicality in the process of circulation.
Poetry is still a good thing among the people, maintaining its original style. After it becomes a plaything for the literati, it becomes complicated, elegant and minority. Perhaps, poetry itself does not have any class attributes, and it has become something with clear class attributes after being adapted by literati. When people appreciate poetry, poetry has become a plaything enjoyed by literati, which has long been divorced from the people and has long lost its original humanistic color.
Poetry can be the basis of novels or essays. Before writing novels or essays, you can engage in some poetry training, but this is not always the case. You can skip poetry training and write novels and essays directly, or add some poems to novels and essays, which is considered arty. There are not many literati who are famous for a poem now, and even poetry has long since withdrawn from the historical stage, which makes people look down on it. Perhaps this is a good thing, but immersed in the aesthetic realm of narcissistic poetry, after all, the aesthetic realm is too narrow, which is not conducive to people seeing more literature.
as long as you read a poem, you can imitate it, even if you make up a few words, it is something to console yourself. If people read a novel with hundreds of thousands of words, can they write a novel? Of course not. I don't have that ability. Even if someone does write it, it may not be successful. It seems that poetry is really the product of literary childhood, vulgar and elegant, but now it has declined. If someone still writes poetry and lyrics, he must be lazy and enjoying himself. After all, literature has reached the level of novels and essays, capital has been injected, and poets have no place to stand.
Perhaps it is admirable to be a pure poet. It's just that it's not tolerated by society. Just like an adult, he still keeps his childhood character. Isn't it a joke? But it also verifies the tolerance of a society, and verifies whether the people of the world are utilitarian or not, pure or not.