Poetry is the oldest and most basic literary form in the world. It is a literary genre that expounds the soul. Poets need to master mature artistic skills and follow certain syllables, tones and rhythm requirements. , using concise language, abundant emotions and rich images to express social life and the human spiritual world in a highly concentrated manner. Confucius believed that poetry has four functions: excitement, appreciation, community, and resentment. Lu Ji believes that "poetry is caused by emotion and is beautiful." In ancient China, what was not harmonious was called poetry, and what was harmonious was called song. In later generations, both were collectively called poetry. There are many expression techniques in poetry, and they have been continuously developed and created throughout the ages, and their application is also flexible and varied. It is difficult to describe them all, such as exaggeration, repetition, overlap, jump, etc. However, all methods are inseparable from imagination. Rich imagination is not only a major feature of poetry, but also the most important expression technique of poetry. In poetry, another important technique of expression is symbolism. Symbols, simply put, mean "to symbolize meaning", but in modern poetry, symbols are also expressed as direct images of the soul, which should be noted. From a modern point of view, there are three main ways of shaping images in poetry.
Modern poetry is also called "vernacular poetry", which is a type of poetry. Compared with classical poetry, it generally does not follow a strict format. and rhythm. The discovery of modern poetry can be traced back to the late Qing Dynasty. At that time, some poems imported from the West began to be translated in the vernacular. However, these works were not very large in volume, so they were rarely known. The name modern poetry began to be used in 1953 when Ji Xian founded the "Modern Poetry Society". The main schools of modern poetry are the Crescent School, the Nine-leaf School, and the Hazy School. According to the expression of the content of the work, it is divided into narrative poetry and lyric poetry. According to the rhythm, rhythm and structural form of the work's language, it is divided into metrical poetry, free verse, prose poetry and rhymed poetry.
It can be seen from the above statement that modern poetry is a type of poetry, but poetry is not the same as modern poetry.
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