I can read Li Bai's poems, such as Silent Night Thinking, as a child. Four easy-to-understand poems are like spring that can be seen at a glance. I read them well.
I can read Tao Yuanming's poems, such as Picking Chrysanthemums under the East Hedgerow. I can understand as soon as I read it, and I can appreciate it as soon as I understand it. Reading his poems is enjoyment, not burden, just like the fresh air in the early spring morning. Anyone can take a big breath, just like the autumn afternoon sun, and anyone can let it pour on themselves.
I can read Dai Wangshu's poems. After reading his "Rain Lane", I really seem to see the girl with an oil-paper umbrella in front of me. I really hope to meet such a sad girl in the future and enjoy this sadness with her.
I can read Yu Ji's poems. Reading his Romantic Song is really exciting and passionate. I remember that everyone in the class copied this poem at that time, and such a long poem could be recited.
Come here again, I can't read poetry. I have bought poetry magazines several times in the past, and it is more difficult to read than to read foreign languages. Reading a new modernist poem over and over again can only be a wild guess, which is meaningless. I hate lying to myself. As I can't read, I really don't know whether the poet knows what he is writing when he writes. If you know why you want to write, why not write clearly? Maybe the poet is just combining words.
I don't understand that I can read poems written in Chinese in primary school. After studying for 20 years, why can't you understand? What's the problem? I later attributed the reason to translating foreign poems. We modernist new poets must be obsessed with learning foreign poems. Because poetry translation is particularly difficult, a foreign poem may be read in its own language and can be understood at first reading. If translated into a foreign language, it will really become a "foreign language" that you can't understand. Because our new poet doesn't know a foreign language, he imitates all translated works, so he exerts the magic of words and writes some strange new poems, which can be read but can't be read. Writing poetry is not painting. Appreciating a modernist painting is a feeling. Because it is a non-verbal work of art, people can communicate directly through vision, which is similar to the feeling that music gives people, while written works are not. If readers don't understand, they won't feel and sing. They can't enter the world created by poets and communicate with their hearts. So I wrote all the poems I didn't understand into bad poems. New poet, even if you pinch mud, let me see clearly what you are pinching. After reading your poem, I am very confused. I know what you are talking about.
I divide poetry into four categories: narrative poetry, lyric poetry, narrative lyric poetry and philosophical poetry.
Narrative poetry is a story in which a poet imagines a character by telling himself. If I don't understand a story when it is told, what am I reading it for?
Lyrics are poets expressing their feelings. If I don't understand, poet, I know what feelings you are expressing. How can I make a * * * sound?
Narrative lyric poetry is a poet's expression of his feelings through fictional characters' stories. If I can't understand the story of the work and don't know the feelings to be expressed in the work, how can I understand it?
Philosophical poetry is the truth that poets express their feelings, which also needs me to understand. If I don't understand, how can I agree with what you said?
From ancient times to the present, all the works handed down are readable, such as Tao Yuanming's works. People didn't appreciate it at that time, because his poems were plain and easy to understand, and they felt that such poems lacked literary talent. Liu Xie's Wen Xin Diao Long did not mention Tao Yuanming's poems, and his poems were only listed as domestic products in Shi Pin, which was not top grade, but history gave Tao Yuanming a fair evaluation.
Poets should be large-scale living people. Works that can be updated with time must be excellent works that readers can read, and poets who can't read must be short-lived poets.