Characteristics of children's poetry

Lyricism is the fundamental way that poetry reflects life. Children's poetry is no exception. However, due to the particularity of its readers, it is required that the emotions of poetry must be expressed from the depths of children's hearts and vividly convey children's beautiful emotions, kind wishes and interesting feelings, so as to arouse the emotional power of young readers. For example, my "Brother Xia" is a poem full of childlike passion to describe the greenery of summer. The poet compared summer to a pole climber and sincerely praised him for bringing us "what a lovely green!" On the surface, the poet is praising the green vitality of nature, but in fact, he is praising "the students who study hard in the shady window for the four modernizations of the motherland, …" These students are the real green scenery in summer. In this way, children can not only be influenced by beauty, but also increase their thirst for knowledge, love for life and sense of responsibility for society.

Children's emotions expressed in children's poems are often full of children's interests, which not only can make children get care and pleasure from them, but also can bring adult readers back to the scene of budding childlike innocence and relive their childhood dreams. For example, the award-winning work "Fourteen Years Old, Blue Harbor" (Knee Yu Xu) is written by children of this special age, including their understanding of love, their worries and naivety, their differences in personality, their desires in their hearts, their ideals and adventurous spirit, etc. Their emotions are expressed naturally, aptly, vividly and interestingly. There is such a poem: "It is brave to say that boys are brave, even if bullets fly, they don't blink;" It is really timid to say that girls are timid, and you can see bean worms jumping from a distance. I hope adults have more exclamation points, but the question mark in my mind can't be pulled straight. Strange questions often embarrass teachers. "In his humorous description, the poet gave vent to children's unique inner world and emotional activities, making people feel that this is what lively and happy children have, full of children's interest, which is beyond words.

It should be noted that children's interest in children's poetry is an internal factor in children's life, and only children's poets can find and vividly describe it, rather than a blunt and external component. Poetry is the art of language. Profound thoughts and vivid images can only become poems if they are expressed in concise, vivid and vivid language. Children's poetry should provide excellent conditions for children to learn and master the language, so that children can learn the language in a beautiful language environment, enrich vocabulary, improve their ability to master and appreciate the language, and enjoy beauty at the same time. For example, in Liu Ruomin's Song of the Sea, the sea is sleeping: "The wind doesn't make trouble, the waves don't laugh. Late at night, the sea went to bed. She holds the bright moon, and she carries the stars. That gentle tidal sound is its sleeping snoring. " In a few words, the quiet and serene sea is presented to the readers, and the graceful gesture of the "mother" of the sea is vividly described with extremely accurate words such as "hug", "hug" and "hit" and anthropomorphic methods. Reciting such poems often can not only improve children's aesthetic ability, but also learn from them and improve children's ability to master and appreciate the language.

In the beautiful language of children's poetry, in addition to the accurate and appropriate tempering of words, the sound rhythm of poetry should be musical, that is, the rhyme of poetry should have aesthetic effect. Mr. Zhu Guangqian, an aesthetic expert, said: "The rhythm of sound is the most direct expression of emotion, and literary significance is the second." Artistic conception, which cannot be expressed by literary meaning, can often be expressed by sound rhythm. "("Selected Works of Zhu Guangqian's Aesthetic Literature Papers ")

The musicality of children's poetry is mainly manifested in rhyme and rhythm. Through the change of rhyme and the patchwork of sentence patterns, children of different ages are taken into account, and at the same time, the whole poem has a strong sense of music and rhythm, forming a neat aesthetic feeling. The younger the children, the more neat the rhyme of the children's poems they read. For example, "Little Bear Crossing the Bridge" (Jiang) for young children ends with the rhyme "Ao"; The distinct sense of rhythm in Wang An's "Di Li, Di Li" and Lu Bing's "Hole in the Chin" give people a bright feeling of reading poetry like singing, which makes children feel beautiful while excited. Narrative poetry is a kind of literary style that uses the language of poetry to express the relationship between characters or events through specific life scenes, create a beautiful artistic conception and truly express emotions.

Narrative poems mostly rely on the plot or characters to start the preface, but it does not necessarily require the completeness of the plot. The plot structure allows a big jump, which is to express people and things with strong poetry. The famous poet Guo Xiaochuan once said that "strangeness, beauty and emotion" are "what a good narrative poem needs" because children like to read narrative poems with characters and plots. "Strange" refers to the ingenious plot arrangement in narrative poems; "Beauty" means that poetry should form a beautiful artistic conception, with concise language and vivid image; "Emotion" means that poetry is full of emotion and interest. Li Ji's A Boy on Three Sides, Ren Rongrong's Dad's Teacher, The Secret of Ke Yan's Hat and Jin Jin's The Good Hunter on Tianmu Mountain are all representative works of narrative poetry. Fairy tale poetry is a work that tells fairy tale (or legend) stories full of fantasy and exaggeration in the form of poetry. It is a combination of fairy tales and poems. Fairy tale poetry is usually regarded as a unique style of children's poetry. At the same time, it is a popular literary style for preschool children and preschool children. A poet said: "I often think that poetry should be full of the fantasy color of fairy tales, and I often think that the fantasy fairy tale world should have the meaning of poetry." I love fairy tales, and I love fairy tales. "(Zhang Qiusheng)

Among fairy tales, there are fairy tales based on folk fairy tales and folklore, such as Ruan's The Golden Conch and Xiong Saisheng's Ma Lianhua. There are also fairy tales based on real life, such as Tagore's Twilight, Ye Sheng's Adventures in the Bamboo Forest and Xi Yu Xu's Fairy Tales in the Forest. Satire is a humorous children's poem, which suggests and criticizes some unhealthy phenomena in children's lives by metaphor and exaggeration, and guides children to introspect. This kind of poem either directly describes the child's wrong behavior and consequences, or mentions one or two shortcomings of the child, or deliberately exaggerates the child's bad habits and ridiculous endings, so that the child can see himself in a smile and be inspired and alert. For example, Ren Rongrong's satirical poem "Dress for a Strong Man" depicts the slowness of dressing for a strong man in an extremely exaggerated way: getting up in the morning and dressing until evening. Ironically, some children's habit of playing while doing things.

There are obvious differences between children's satirical poems and general satirical poems. The satirical object in children's poems is children, so most of them are well-meaning, euphemistic and mild satire. It is different from ordinary satirical poems, and it is mostly aimed at some abnormal phenomena in social life, some people's misdeeds or the acrimony of the enemy. It is incisive and even has no room for manoeuvre. Inscription poem is a kind of children's poem written for pictures (or cartoons) suitable for children to enjoy. The famous poet Ke Yan's poems on paintings are among them.