Poetry is a highly concentrated literary genre that reflects social life. Full of the author's thoughts and feelings and rich imagination. The language is concise and vivid, with distinct rhythm, harmonious phonology and rich musical beauty.
Poetry expresses people's joys and sorrows in highly concise language and influences people's spiritual world in a unique rhythm and way. Reading and appreciating poetry can arouse rich associations, stimulate emotional voices, enrich the reverie of the soul and enhance aesthetic taste.
The language of poetry is very concise. Poets often show a broad life in a few words, and contain rich connotations in a short space. Compared with other literary genres, poetry reflects the highest concentration and universality of life. When expressing life, poets always choose the most characteristic and typical people and things in life.
By describing the typical image characteristics, we can enrich the content and thoughts and feelings, express the deepest thoughts and feelings, and show a wide range of life and things with the most universal ideological significance. When we taste the concise language of poetry, we can fully expand our imagination to experience rich ideological connotations and emotions.
For example, Yu Guangzhong's Homesickness only uses four bars, sixteen sentences and eighty-eight words, which divides "homesickness" into four stages: childhood, growth, later and now, and accordingly selects four typical images in life, such as stamps, boat tickets, graves and straits, which arouses readers' wider association space.
He not only expressed his thoughts about his hometown and old friends, but also thought about the reunification of the motherland and the fate of the nation. Although poetry is not long, it is a model of simplicity and beauty.