China's poetry can be divided into modern poetry and ancient poetry (classical poetry) according to the time of creation and the time content reflected by poetry. 19 19 The new poems developed during the May 4th New Literature Movement and some old-fashioned poems reflecting modern life and thoughts and feelings are all modern poems. 19 19 Old-style poems written before the May 4th Movement, such as the Book of Songs, Chuci, Tang Poetry, Song Ci, Yuan Qu, etc., are all old-style poems. Among the old-style poems, apart from words and songs, they can also be divided into ancient poems and modern poems. Compared with metrical poems such as quatrains and metrical poems, old-style poems other than quatrains and metrical poems are called classical poems; Compared with classical poetry, quatrains, metrical poems and rhythmic poems formed from the Southern Dynasties to the Tang Dynasty are called modern poems.
According to the content, poetry can be divided into lyric poetry and narrative poetry. Lyrics mainly reflect social life by directly expressing the author's inner feelings. According to the author's attitude towards objective things and the content of poems, lyric poems can be divided into carols, lamentations, love songs, pastoral poems, landscape poems, satirical poems, epics and so on. Narrative poetry mainly reflects real life by describing events and shaping characters. Narrative-oriented, lyrical narrative, generally with complete stories and specific characters.
According to the form, poetry can be divided into metrical poetry, free verse, prose poetry and folk songs, which all reflect their different formal characteristics.
By subject matter:
1. Love Poetry This is a kind of poem with the theme of love (including mourning), also known as "love song" and "in my heart forever's poem". Since the Book of Songs, love poems have a long history, mainly describing the love and love life of men and women, or expressing the feelings of parting and lovesickness.
2. Satire Poetry This is a kind of poem that exposes the darkness of society and the coldness of the world by mocking or persuading, and expresses the voice of the people or upright people. Also called "satire", sometimes called "political satire". Satire also has a long history, from the Book of Songs to modern times.
3. Philosophical Poetry This is a kind of poem that expresses or expounds a certain philosophy by describing and discussing specific things. Some point out the theme, while others contain it without revealing it, which makes people think deeply.
4. Farewell Poetry This is also one of the earliest and most common themes, which is mainly used to express feelings of parting, or to encourage, or to express deep affection and friendship, or to express sadness of parting. Because farewell is often associated with climbing mountains and facing water, it is also called "farewell poem of mountains and rivers"
5. Poems about travel are also called poems about travel and travel. Or describe personal experiences and feelings, or express homesickness, narration and lyricism. This kind of poem can not be separated from the description of landscape scenery, so it is also called "landscape poem", which is slightly different from pure landscape poem, and it is mainly based on "recalling lyric".
6. Frontier Poem This is a poem describing the frontier fortress scenery and reflecting the life of frontier fortress soldiers.
7. Poetry is a kind of poetry with the theme of reciting or commenting on historical stories and historical figures, which is used to express feelings and satirize current events. Generally, it is described first and then discussed; Others only describe the contrast without discussion, so that readers can think.
8. Poetry. This is a poem that expresses thoughts and feelings by praising natural or social things. Symbol comparison is its common method. This kind of poems appeared in the pre-Qin and Han dynasties, and there were more and more excellent works after the Tang Dynasty.
9. Poetry. This is a poem with the theme of reciting personal aspirations and reflecting or satirizing society. Bixing, symbolism and association are its main techniques. Poems chanting for the bosom also come from The Book of Songs, which is one of the most important poems in ancient times.
10. Recite ancient poems. Memories and imagination generated by hanging on historic sites arouse feelings and express feelings and ambitions. This kind of poetry is nostalgic poetry. Ancient nostalgia poems can be classified into the category of nostalgia poems, but they have their own unique characteristics; Nostalgic poems are slightly different from epic poems. It is to express one's will by immersing oneself in historical sites, and the epic can be written in the study without going to historical sites.
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In addition, there are poems with paintings, poems with palace grievances and untitled poems. Because their themes are compatible with other themes, or are determined according to the content of the poem, I will not repeat them here.