Some differences and connections between ancient poetry and modern poetry
1, difference:
Modern poetry is metrical poetry, including quatrains and metrical poems. Also known as modern poetry. Poems before the Tang Dynasty are called archaic poems (excluding the so-called "Qi Liang Style"), and poems with different styles after the Tang Dynasty are also called archaic poems. So what is the difference between ancient poetry and modern poetry? Generally speaking, it can be distinguished from syntax, phonology, level tone and so on.
Syntactically, the number of words in each sentence of classical poetry is different, and the number of sentences in each poem can also be different. Modern poetry has only five words and seven words (four quatrains and eight rhymes). More than eight sentences are excluded or called long method. )
Rhyme; Each ancient poem can use one rhyme or two or more rhymes, that is, it can change in a poem. Modern poetry can only use one rhyme, no matter how long it is arranged, it can't be changed. Classical poetry can rhyme even sentences, or even odd sentences. Modern poetry rhymes only on even sentences (except the first sentence, which can be bet or not) ) Classical poetry can rhyme in both flat and even tones. Modern poetry, on the other hand, can only use flat and even rhymes.
In terms of standards, classical poetry is not particular. Modern poetry is very particular.
In metrical poems, the first and second sentences are the first couplet, the third and fourth sentences are the parallel couplet, the fifth and sixth sentences are the neck couplet, and the seventh and eighth sentences are the tail couplet. Parallel prose and neck couplets must have the same sentence pattern, relative part of speech, and even. Very neat. In fact, three, four, five and six are two excellent couplets.
Classical poetry is a kind of poetic style as opposed to "modern style".
Before the formation of modern poetry, all kinds of poetry genres except Chu Ci were also called ancient poetry and ancient style. The meter of classical poetry is relatively free, informal and even. The rhyme foot is wide, except for the rhyme foot of seven-character white and bright sentences, which generally rhymes with other sentences. The rhyme foot can be flat, flat or variable. There is no limit to the length of space. Sentences can be unified into four-character, five-character, six-character and seven-character fonts, or long and short sentences can be mixed and changed at will, which is miscellaneous.
There are many ancient poems with five words and seven words, which are referred to as "five ancient" and "seven ancient" for short. Miscellaneous words range from one word to many crosses, which are generally a mixture of three, four, five and seven words, mainly seven words, so they are customarily classified as seven ancient words. Since the Han and Wei Dynasties, Yuefu poems were originally accompanied by music, including songs, lines, songs and words. The Tang Dynasty imitated previous Yuefu, such as Li Bai's Difficult Road to Shu, and some famous works with new themes, such as Du Fu's Three Officials, Three Farewells and Bai Juyi's New Yuefu, which were out of step and belonged to the category of ancient poetry. In addition, before the Tang Dynasty, there were quatrains with four sentences as the unit, or "ancient quatrains", and there were writers in the Tang Dynasty, which is also a kind of ancient poetry, which is different from the current quatrains that pay attention to the level.
2. Contact person:
There is an interactive relationship between ancient poetry and modern poetry in the process of development.
In the late Northern and Southern Dynasties, some poems began to emphasize rhythm and duality, but they have not yet formed a complete rhythm, which is a form of transition from ancient style to modern style poetry, or "new style poetry". Some ancient poems in the Tang Dynasty tend to be legalist. For example, Wang Bo's Tengwangge is an ancient poem, but it is flat and harmonious, with eight sentences, which are similar to two seven-character quatrains and two rhymes. After the Tang dynasty's metrical poems were finalized, the poets' ancient works were often integrated into the modern sentence pattern. Such as Wang Wei, Li Qi, Wang Changling and Meng Haoran, there are quite a few rhymes and couplets in the five ancient books. There are also many sentences in Bai Juyi's famous songs such as Song of Eternal Sorrow and Pipa Xing. However, some poets are consciously different from the modern style, often using awkward sentences and occasionally prose, and Li Bai, Du Fu and Han Yu have all created something. Later, scholars in Ming and Qing Dynasties consciously noticed the phenomenon that ancient poems were merged into regular sentences and strange sentences were used to avoid regular sentences. In Qing Dynasty, Wang Shiping thought that ancient poems were flat, so Zhao Zhixin, Weng Fanggang and others specially studied the tones of ancient poems. Their research has contributed to consciously distinguishing ancient and modern metrical patterns in poetry creation. However, due to ignoring the fact that ancient poetry is dominated by natural syllables, it seems far-fetched, and even ridiculed as "it's useless to read it if you don't read it" (Xu Cui's "Reading Poems")