Poetry is a literary genre that expresses feelings and wishes. It is a literary genre with a certain rhythm and rhythm, which vividly expresses the author's rich emotions in highly concise language and reflects the social life in a concentrated way.
In ancient Han Dynasty, unhappy people were called poems and happy people were called songs. In modern times, they are generally called poems. It expresses social life and people's spiritual world according to certain syllables and rhythms. The origin of poetry can be traced back to ancient times. The Book of Songs is China's first collection of poems, which is said to have been compiled by Confucius. There is still debate on this issue in academic circles.
Modern poetry, also known as "vernacular poetry", can be traced back to the late Qing Dynasty, which is a kind of poetry. Compared with ancient poems, although they are all written for understanding things, they are generally informal in format and rhythm. The mainstream of modern poetry is free verse. The vernacular style is adopted in form, which breaks the shackles of the old-style poetry, and mainly reflects the new life and expresses new ideas in content.
Modern poetry is free in form and rich in connotation, and image management is more important than rhetoric application. Compared with ancient poetry, although they all feel things and reflect the soul, they completely break through the characteristics of ancient poetry, which are "gentle and sincere, with no complaints", and emphasize more on free and open, straightforward statements and intangible communication between reason and reason.
Image content of poetry;
Poetry reflects life and expresses feelings through artistic images. To appreciate poetry, we must accurately grasp the artistic images in poetry: some poems express their emotions by depicting concrete and vivid images; Some poems, although they do not depict specific images, can arouse readers' imagination; Some poems not only depict concrete images, but also express their thoughts and feelings.
To grasp the image of poetry, we must grasp the characteristics of the image. Some poems depict many images, so when appreciating them, we should combine many individual images to imagine and construct a whole image.
The images depicted in some poems are not real, but have metaphorical or symbolic connotations. We can't understand the image of this kind of works literally, but we should combine the background of the times and the author's experience to explore the connotation of the image through imagination and association. In a word, understanding the image of poetry should be based on profound understanding and overall grasp, rather than superficial.