Modern poetry refers to a new poetry genre created by modern Chinese. This is the art of modern language. To put it simply, it is the "writing poems in vernacular" that began to be tried after the May 4th Movement. However, vernacular poetry did not begin at this time. The emergence of modern poetry is the historical necessity of the development and change of China's poetry genre. For more than two thousand years, China's poetic genre has been changing constantly. Tang poetry, Song poetry, Yuan and Ming songs are all facts.
The biggest difference between modern poetry and classical poetry is that it completely abandons the constraints of classical poetry's meter and style. Sentences have no length, no rhyme requirements, no fixed body, free expression and convenient use. But freedom is relative, and it is freedom after discipline adjustment. Absolute freedom fails, and once it fails, it will fail immediately. In fact, the development of Chinese painting is worth learning and thinking about. Therefore, sentences without length mean how long and how short it takes to get information. There is no requirement for rhyme, which means that the rhyme place can have the melody of the song. No fixed body means what kind of genre is beautiful enough. Expressing casualness is how to express your feelings before satisfaction.
The relationship between modern poetry and ancient poetry is continuous and comes down in one continuous line. Without ancient poetry, there would be no modern poetry. If you want to write modern poetry well, you must first learn from ancient poetry. It is necessary to find out why the representative works of classical poetry can push China's language and culture to the extreme in different periods. It is impossible for future generations to write like this. It is necessary to find out what is inappropriate if modern people's concept of life, characteristics of the times and spiritual reflection are used to express. Secondly, we should learn foreign modern poetry. However, it is necessary to understand the differences between foreign modern poetry and ancient poetry, as well as the differences and characteristics between foreign modern language and modern Chinese. Losing the characteristics of modern Chinese, simply expressing or imitating, what comes out may or may not be poetry. At least not a good poem. There are various literary genres, so if you choose the form of poetry, you have to use the language of poetry.
By the Tang Dynasty, Daxing Ci in the Song Dynasty and fluent Sanqu in the Yuan Dynasty had been finalized, or initially formed, or began to sprout. However, scholars still use ready-made genres, mainly five or seven sentences about the ancients, law, unique aspirations, scenery writing, lyricism, notes and the like. But it is the lyrics that are valued by future generations. In this sense, in fact, modern poetry is still on the road. After the May 4th Movement, "writing poems in vernacular" has gained a lot of experience and progress through the efforts of several generations, but on the whole, it can't be said that this transformation has been completed. There are many people writing poems now. Especially with the emergence of the Internet, more people want to express their feelings, which is a good thing. If you write more, you will naturally have good poems, which will naturally speed up the process of maturity. It is not surprising that many people write and read. It is inevitable that there will be bad works, ridicule or attacks. Therefore, there is no need for people to treat modern poetry or modern poets with excessive behavior. People who have a little exploration should not dream of being a poet or a fairy. Write hard and you will have good poems. Good poetry will not be forgotten in the history of literature.