Original text:
A bowl of clear soup is poetry, and the chef is in heaven today.
If the jade emperor asks about human affairs, articles in troubled times are worthless.
Ancient poetry, that is, China's ancient poetry, refers to China's poetry works before the Opium War 1840. Its original intention is a poem written by the ancients. Broadly speaking, China's ancient poems include poems, words and Sanqu written by the ancients. In a narrow sense, ancient poetry only refers to ancient poetry and modern poetry written by ancient people.
Metric poetry, also known as modern poetry, is a kind of ancient poetry in China and a poetic style formed after the Tang Dynasty, which is mainly divided into quatrains and metrical poems. According to the number of words in each sentence, it can be divided into five words and seven words. Style and sentence patterns have certain norms, phonology has certain laws, and the changes in use also need to abide by certain laws.
Free verse is a kind of poem with irregular syllables, rhythms and other forms of design. It pursues "organic form" and relies on the natural rhythm of speech. This kind of speech is "natural" to the theme and feelings of the poem. Free verse is not a modern invention, but with the arrival of modernism, it occupies an important position and constitutes a rebellion against the fixed form of19th century poetry.
Free verse has no external form to use, and it may be the most difficult to write well compared with previous poems. Narrative poetry is a poetic genre. It depicts characters in the form of poems and expresses emotions by writing people's narratives. Compared with novels and plays, its plot is generally simple.