I. Use of Language and Artistic Conception
Modern poetry has three obvious and concrete elements, which are: language, artistic conception and rhythm. This shows how important language and artistic conception are to a modern poem. If we want to appreciate the quality of a modern poem, these two factors are the first, essential and can't be ignored.
As we all know, language comes from life, but the language used in any genre of articles is not the language of life. "Art comes from life and is higher than life", in fact, this means that the language of any literary genre comes from life, but it is also "necessarily higher than life."
As a poetic literary genre, it plays a more important role and charm in language. In a modern poem, if the language is elegant and unique, there must be some chewing and interest; And if the language is not used properly, it will destroy the atmosphere and style of the whole work. As for artistic conception, I personally think it is something that can render works and atmosphere. It can be an open picture, from far to near, or from near to far, or it can be a kind of feeling, philosophical thinking and Zen. In other words, artistic conception can be divided into tangible and intangible categories, and tangible objects and pictures are tangible artistic conception; There is also an artistic conception that is invisible, because there are no so-called pictures and objects. This artistic conception only exists as an idea or a feeling.
Below, we will appreciate the charm of language and artistic conception through specific works. First, let's read the poem Sparrow by the poet He three old ladies.
sparrow
The heavy snow fell under the mountain.
The house curled up in the snow.
There is smoke on the roof.
Sparrows are dressed as
autumn leave
Fall from a branch
All of a sudden,
Go back to the tree
In just a few words, the poet opened a beautiful picture for us with elegant language and artistic conception. In these three simple poems, we can appreciate a beautiful artistic conception, which is tangible, such as "white snow flowers, houses, snow, kitchen smoke", and several simple images, which fluctuate in front of readers inadvertently, have actually created a particularly elegant artistic conception and atmosphere. And "falling from the branch/returning to the tree instantly" is actually a tangible and intangible artistic conception. In this intangible artistic conception, we see not only sparrows, leaves and trees, but also a broad vision and thoughts, with a lot of feelings and thoughts. Animals living and working optimistically in the cold is actually an encouragement and gratitude to human beings.
"Sparrows dress up as/autumn leaves/fall from branches/return to trees in an instant", and you can also appreciate the elegance of the poet's sentences and narrative here. "Sparrow Dressing/Autumn Leaves" doesn't have much decoration, but it brings readers extremely clean and clear, and the tranquility of "falling from the branches/returning to the trees instantly". Short poems have also achieved great success. Here, we fully realize the great charm that language and artistic conception bring to works and readers.
Second, grasp the rhythm and rhythm.
Anyone who has been exposed to literature knows the meaning of rhythm. In classical poetry, rhythm plays a very important role. If there is no rhythm, or the rhythm is incomplete, then classical poetry cannot be called poetry, and even the best poetry will lose its value.
After the New Culture Movement, in the early modern poetry, the poet grasped the rhythm in detail. In early modern poetry, we can often read good works with ingenious rhythm and rhythm. These good works usually give us the feeling that reading is brisk, beautiful, cadence, or capable, atmospheric, mellow and long-lasting. These excellent works of rhythm and rhythm are also excellent works of recitation.
Then let's come back with the flavor of rhythm and rhythm to appreciate the excellent works of ancient philosophers and modern poets.
Farewell to Cambridge (excerpt)
I walked gently.
When I came softly
I waved my hand gently.
Farewell to the western clouds
Golden willow by the river.
Is the bride in the sunset?
Erotic shadows in the waves
Ripple in my heart
Green grass on soft mud
Oily, swaying at the bottom of the water
In Joubo, He Kang.
I would like to be an aquatic plant.
A pool in the shade of elm trees
Not a clear spring, but a rainbow in the sky.
Crushed by floating algae
Precipitate a rainbow-like dream
……
The whole poem consists of seven sections, four lines in each section, and two or three meals in each line. Eclectic, rigorous statutes, rhyming with two or four rhymes, cadence and catchy. Beautiful rhythm and rhyme under the control of the author, the narrative started by the poet is like a beautiful ripple in a lake, cool and thorough, and gradually swings open in front of readers. Gently back, it will taste better. The beautiful and quiet images that slowly open are "clouds, golden willows, sunset, bride, …" "Walk gently, come gently", and the green picture in spring catches the reader's eye, "I would like to be a water plant in the gentle waves of Hekang River", … It is really warm and exciting, comfortable and light, gentle and wonderful.
This is the idea of many poets. Modern poetry is not only a poem, but also a beautiful song. Looking at the poet's works and tasting his perfect rhythm and artistic conception, we know how charming and intoxicating modern poetry is.
Today, decades later, modern poetry has climbed countless steps. Today's modern poetry is completely free and full of individuality. They are atmospheric, unrestrained, introverted, open and carefree. In other words, in today's modern poetry expression, many poets may have abandoned the rhythm that poetry should have, but the rhythm is still essential. In a sense, rhythm actually represents a kind of momentum of the work, which can also be said to be a style. If the rhythm is mastered skillfully, it will become a poet's personality, and various styles may be born from it, forming a hundred schools of thought.
Third, fresh and clever methods.
As we all know, poetry is composed of every detail sentence. Fresh and smart here refers to the expression and structure of sentences. There are many ways to form a sentence. In terms of expression, most individuals like to organize their language with their usual methods and personalities, including procrastination, conciseness, freshness and elegance, and triviality and verbosity. I think the difference in the level and style of poetry first comes from the difference in one's ability to organize language. Freshness is actually just a feeling, a combination of freshness and liveliness. If the combination of a sentence or the expression of a poem can do this, and give readers a refreshing and vivid silence, how can it not make readers like and move?
And agility means that the expression contains an invisible power and sense of movement, which makes old photos come alive, makes still images jump, makes dim colors bright, and even makes dead objects reborn again! This shows how smart the role is, and also shows that smart "movement" is actually a silent force. Let's analyze it in detail with poetry.
Winter sun
They climbed over walls and safety nets.
Turn over the closed glass and screen window.
Jump down gently
Wandering around the room
What a lively group of fish!
They are dressed in gold.
They are swimming in the cold air.
They are swimming on the white floor.
I watched quietly.
It seems that the cold time is back.
Like those happy fish, only.
Swimming in my warm heart
In this exquisite and short poem, we can appreciate the incomparable warmth and beautiful feeling brought by the literary genre of poetry, and deep poetry runs through it. The biggest feature of this poem is freshness and agility, and there is also a strong sense of picture. In the first section, "They climb over the wall, guard against theft/climb over the closed glass, screen window/gently jump off/wander around the room", here we see the author's fresh language, which is not trivial and complicated, and a series of verbs such as "climbing over the wall", "jumping off" and "wandering" are just right, from far to near, leading the reader's sight and sense, which is refreshing.
In the second quarter, there is a sense of beauty and movement. The sunshine in winter here is "weakened" into groups of lively fish. "They are dressed in gold/they are swimming in the cold air/they are swimming on the white floor." The sunshine is quiet, even with a sense of stillness. The author uses clever metaphors and narratives to make quiet things swim and quiet pictures jump, so he has to.
In the third section, the author skillfully sublimated the sense of movement, continued to stretch the sense of movement of the picture, and jumped up gently with clever sentences. "I watched quietly/as if the cold time was reviving/as if those happy fish were swimming in my warm heart." Hehe, the sun shone on everything and everyone's heart. "As if those happy fish were swimming in my warm heart," it was so gentle and delicate. How could this situation not help people?
Four. Anthropomorphic method
When it comes to personification, we all know what is going on, and personification in poetry is not a simple metaphor. If so, then poetry will lose its original poetry, sense of language and charm.
Personification in poetry refers to the portrayal of the theme or object image to be expressed, or the use of certain personality characteristics of characters to chant things. If properly expressed, it can even make the virtual person and the real thing * * * become an organic whole, and the effect is naturally unparalleled by borrowing people to praise things and compare things with people.
Let's look at the magical function of personification.
Moonlight? Author: He three old ladies
You came down from the back hill in a skirt.
Leaves are floating in the evening breeze.
The moonlight shone on the wooden door.
Hehe, reading He three old ladies's works will always bring more emotion and joy. In these three short sentences, the author opened countless beautiful images simply and neatly with a few numbers. Although short, it is full of fragrance and endless meaning. "You came down from the back hill in a skirt", obviously, this is anthropomorphic, because the moon is not a person, and it will not wear a beautiful skirt belonging to a woman.
Quiet night. The leaves are trembling at the full moon. The moonlight fell on the wooden door. The poet standing at night saw the bright moon hanging in the sky and the faint yellow moonlight slowly falling. The beautiful moon is not an object without temperature and emotion, but a gentle and elegant woman. You came down from the back hill in a skirt. What kind of woman is so elegant and indifferent? It must be Wendell's love. It must be the most beautiful.
Therefore, in the poet's pen, the moon is personified as an extremely gentle and elegant woman with unspeakable beauty and tranquility; At the same time, the poet compared people with things at the moment when he borrowed people to praise things, that is to say, he compared moonlight to women and sublimated women to the infinite realm of moonlight. Here, poets silently praise women all over the world. A woman as bright and pure as moonlight is the greatest sublimation of art.
Five, sketch method
Speaking of sketching, we all know what is going on. It is to draw an object or portrait on white paper with a pencil, or it can be a rough thinking. Then, how to draw with a pen when poetry is combined with language?
Hehe, we don't need to borrow pencils to write poems. Sometimes, language is the best pencil. In our hands, using artistic conception and rhythm, we can draw more beautiful pictures than pencils and white paper. Moreover, these pictures are not only beautiful, rough, delicate, or hazy, but also have incomparable softness, sensibility, beautiful artistic conception, poetic and open philosophy, full of fragrance and long aftertaste.
Next, let's feel the charm of sketch in poetry.
late autumn
Vast land
The lake ran aground. Grass close to yellow
Shrub bleak
Setaria is still waiting for it.
The cool wind is coming.
Those dark yellow wild chrysanthemums
After dancing
Have a slight chill
Here, the author obviously uses the sketching and painting skills with poetic language, which opens a picture of late autumn well. Here, we not only see a picture of autumn colors in Shan Ye, but also read the beauty and poetry of everything in these pictures. "The vast land/lake ran aground. The yellow grass at hand seems to be a painting in front of us, with the vast earth as the background and a far and large field of vision. Then we see the scenery in the background "the lake is stranded, near the yellow grass", or the things and scenes in the background. Slowly, the picture is getting closer and closer: "The bush is bleak/the green grass is still waiting", so we see the low "bush", which is the picture opened by the author in the first section. In this painting, we also appreciate many true colors of nature: stranded lakes, yellow grasslands, bleak shrubs, and the waiting of foxtail. In painting, the author has to spend a lot of time and paint to make all kinds of colors, while in poetry sketch, most of the senses of the picture can be achieved in just a few words, so he has to praise the wonder of the words again.
In the second quarter, we can see the sublimation of the sense of picture, the sublimation of thought and art. The original author wants to express not only a picture of late autumn, but also a deeper and more unyielding praise to nature and plants. "Cool breeze/those dark yellow wild chrysanthemums/after dancing/trembling gently" and "those dark yellow wild chrysanthemums" should be the main body in the picture. After describing many dim colors, the author finally pointed to a "deep yellow delicacy". In late autumn, everything withered and the river ran aground. Only the strong and beautiful wild chrysanthemum stands proudly in the cold environment. Even if the cool breeze blows, the arrogant wild chrysanthemum just "shakes slightly after dancing." If a person, no matter how many difficulties and setbacks he encounters, can stand proudly like this nameless wild chrysanthemum, ignoring all the cold wind and rain, what a splendid scenery of life!