Simply put, psychological image (emotion)+physical image (beauty) = poetry. For example:
A twig,
Like a wire;
Small yellow flowers,
Like a shiny electric light;
The earth is like a power plant in spring.
-Zhang Shizhen's "Winter jasmine"
In this poem, "branches", "yellow flowers" and "earth" are psychological images, while "wires", "electric lights" and "power plants" are physical images. This wonderful poem came into being because after seeing the green branches and yellow flowers in spring, I had a good impression on the spring of the earth in my heart, and then compared the spiritual image with the material image through imagination, so that love and beauty were skillfully combined.
Of course, this is not a fixed pattern of poetry. Poetry is free and diverse. To really know and understand poetry, we still need to understand it through long-term reading and creation.
Second, the basic characteristics of modern poetry
1, content: beautiful imagination, extraordinary in the ordinary;
2. Ideologically: Write touching feelings. In other words, personal feelings and experiences should be added;
3. Format: If you want to branch, you can branch by sentence or by content.
Third, how to write a poem?
Poetry is the most refined literary variety, and vivid and typical artistic images are often selected to reflect the essence of life, which stimulates readers' imagination with great generalization and gives people beautiful enjoyment. So, how to write such a poem? We should start with the following points.
(A) capture the typical image
The so-called "image" is the life picture displayed in literary works, which refers to the concrete and vivid scene of people, things and nature with certain ideological content and artistic appeal formed by poets according to various phenomena in real life. A good poem, without exception, uses accurate and vivid images to compare invisible emotions or unspecified things. Only when we have a unique discovery of life, capture novel images and dig out profound ideological connotations can we write a good poem that is different from ordinary ones.
Images in poetry include images of scenery (or images) and images of characters.
1, character image
Refers to the characters or lyric heroes created in poetry. If you want to write a poem about your mother, you must have the image of a lyric hero, that is, the writer himself. He can appear directly in the form of "I" or in the form of words such as "son" and "daughter", as long as it is sincere. For example, in Mu Dan's praise, there is a lyric hero like "I"; There is also a symbol of the China people who have awakened and are fighting bloody battles-a farmer, an ordinary and great farmer. In his sufferings, he has been constantly disappointed and humiliated, and he has devoted himself to the cause of national liberation without hesitation, with his determination to die, strong and unyielding.
2, the scene image (or image)
Some people say that "two feet can't stand a tripod, and poetry can't be without images." This shows the important position of "image" in poetry. Image is the soul of poetic art, and poets generally express themselves and entrust their subjective feelings through images. When writing a poem dedicated to mother, you can choose images related to mother, such as mother's white hair, eyes, hands and feet, etc. You can also choose the tools when your mother works, such as hoes, sickles and shovels. No matter which image you choose, you should include your feelings in it. For example, in Xu Zhimo's poem Biekangqiao, clouds, golden willows, beautiful shadows, green grass, rainbows, dreams, wormwood, starlight, flutes, summer insects and Cambridge are all selected.
(B) Create artistic conception
The so-called artistic conception is simply the poet's strong feelings and the artistic realm of vivid objective things, thus showing both form and spirit in his poems. In this poem written for my mother, how to create artistic conception, I think we should first try to attach our emotions to the selected images, so as to achieve the integration of situations and feelings. For example, in the practice of "Dedicated to Mother", I wrote that I grew up under my mother's care by borrowing "Sophora japonica at the entrance of the village", and my heartfelt gratitude was between the lines, and I didn't hide it at all. In addition, creating artistic conception is inseparable from artistic skills, but it needs to be refined from life and gained from experience. This is something that beginners must keep in mind.
(C) the use of rhetoric
Poetry should highly summarize life, which requires the use of the most refined language to portray a distinctive artistic image; In order to express strong feelings in poetry, it is necessary to use various rhetorical devices to strengthen the feelings of poetry. Rhetorical devices commonly used in poetry include metaphor, symbol, contrast, exaggeration, duality, personification and repetition. Using different figures of speech will achieve different expressive effects. When you write poems for your mother, you can use figurative rhetoric. We can compare our mother to the "sky" to prop up our sky; It can also be compared to "the earth", which carries us and nurtures us; It can also be compared to Spring Silkworm and Candle. Life is endless and care is endless. You can also use parallelism rhetoric: what is a mother? In the lonely night, my mother handed me the warmth of a cup of hot milk. What is a mother? Mother always waits at the intersection after school. What is a mother? Mother is a smile filled with tears of relief when we succeed. What is a mother? Mother is our firm eye when we want to escape. The use of these parallelism sentences will sincerely express deep gratitude to the mother and will better impress the readers.
(D) Pay attention to the rhythm
For a successful poem, rhythm is essential. "Rhyme is the steering wheel of poetry. Like a ship, poetry sails on it. (Butler, American educator) The last vowel of a poem is similar, so it has a touching beauty to sing. In this poem for mother, we should rhyme as much as possible according to the needs of expression without damaging the content of the poem. At this point, Xu Zhimo can serve as an example for us to learn. His poem Farewell to Cambridge consists of seven sections, each with four lines. Rhyme strictly follows the rhyme of 24, cadence and catchy. After reading, the lingering sound gives people a unique aesthetic pleasure.
Fourth, kung fu is outside the poem
For those who learn to write poetry, it is essential to master various methods and skills of writing poetry. However, to really write poems well, they still need to read a lot, pay attention to new things in daily life, and constantly accumulate experience to find inspiration in order to write the most beautiful poems.
Youth needs poetry, and writing poetry is of great significance to a person's growth. A poet once said: If a person does not write poetry when he is young, he will miss the best time of his life. Now, you can pick up a pen and hold up the youthful sun with poetry.
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