Children's poetry refers to poetry that takes children as the main recipients and is suitable for children to listen to, recite, and read. It should conform to children's psychological and aesthetic characteristics, including poems written by adult poets for children, as well as poems written by children to express their feelings. Children's poetry is a branch of poetry. Because it is restricted by the psychological characteristics of specific readers, the life content reflected, the artistic conception carried out, the associations and imagination developed, the literary language used, etc., must all conform to The age characteristics of children must be something that children like to hear and see. Only in this way can we play a unique role in cultivating children's good moral character, ideological sentiments, stimulating and enriching their imagination, thinking ability, etc., especially in cultivating children's healthy aesthetic consciousness and art appreciation.
Main features
Children's poetry
(1) Full children's emotions
Lyricism is the fundamental way for poetry to reflect life. Children's poetry is no exception. However, due to the particularity of its readers, the emotions of poetry must be expressed from the depths of children's hearts, and vividly convey children's beautiful feelings, kind wishes, and interesting emotions, so as to arouse the emotions of young readers. The *** on the top chirps. For example, "Brother Xia" by Sheng Ye is a poem full of childlike passion to describe the greenery of summer. The poet compares summer to a green child who loves to climb poles, and sincerely praises him for bringing us "what a lovely Green color! "On the surface, the poet is praising the green vitality of nature, but in fact he is praising "for the four modernizations of the motherland, students who study diligently in windows filled with green shade..." These students are the true meaning of summer. of green scenery. This will not only allow children to be influenced by beauty, but also increase children's desire for knowledge, love for life, and responsibility for society.
Children's emotions expressed in children's poems are often full of children's interest, which not only allows children to get care and pleasure from it, but also brings adult readers back to the scene of childlike innocence and relives it. Childhood dream. For example, the work "Fourteen Years Old, Blue Harbor" (Xi Yuxu), which won the "Chen Bochui Children's Literature Award", wrote a poem for 20-year-old children and wrote about children's understanding of love, worries and innocence, personality differences, The longings in their hearts, as well as their ideals and adventurous spirit, etc., are expressed in a natural, appropriate, vivid and interesting way. There is such a poem in it: "If you want to say that boys are brave, they are really brave, even if the guns are flying, they will not blink; if you want to say that girls are timid, they are really timid, and they will jump far away when they see bean bugs. I hope there will be a few more exclamation points to call adults "Everyone was impressed, but the questions in their minds couldn't be straightened out, and the weird questions often made the teacher embarrassed." The poet vented children's unique inner world and emotional activities in humorous descriptions, making people feel that this is liveliness. Happy children have an exuberant childishness that is beyond words.
It should be noted that the children's interest in children's poems is an inherent factor in children's lives. It is just picked up, discovered and vividly described by children's poets, rather than a rigid addition. ingredients.
Children are the most imaginative and associative. They always use their creative imagination to understand and interpret everything in the world. In their poetic world through imagination, flowers can laugh, birds can sing, grass can dance, fish can speak... Therefore, children's poems must create beautiful artistic conceptions with rich imagination that conforms to children's psychology, express children's innocence, and allow children to spread the wings of imagination and understand the theme of the poem in a wonderful and colorful world. This requires children's poems to use their hearts to talk to children in an imaginary world. For example, Shao Yanxiang's children's poem "Little Fairy Tale": "To the south of the clouds, / in that distant place, / there is a group of leaves saying: We want / to bloom like flowers. / There is a group of flowers saying: we want / to fly like birds." / A group of peacocks said: We want / to grow like trees..." The beginning of the poem leads the young readers from reality to the "distant place" in their imagination, and completes "leafflowers" and "little butterflies" in their imagination. The re-creation of beautiful images such as "Peacock fir" and "Peacock fir" unfolds rich reveries. However, the poet's intention is not only this, but to continue to spread the wings of imagination with the children, and realize the poetic meaning from objects and people. The "distant place" is the "Dai village", "the flowers, butterflies and peacock fir / all turned into little girls", returning from the imaginary world to reality, and in this reality the beautiful image of the Dai girl still remains Young readers need to further associate and gain aesthetic enjoyment from it
(3) Novel and ingenious ideas
The emotions expressed in children's poems are both rich and profound. , are far inferior to adult poetry, which is determined by children's emotional characteristics. How can one express interest on a less broad emotional level and create a unique expressive effect? This mainly depends on the novelty and ingenuity of the idea. This conception, which relies on life accumulation and children's imagination, determines the artistic level of children's poetry to a large extent. For example, Ren Rongrong's "Dad's Teacher" is not very creative in exploring the emotions of similar themes, but it is still a model work of similar themes. The secret lies in the author's creation of a novel and ingenious conception mode, which achieves a unique expression effect. Another example is Shu Lan's "Insects and Birds": "I took my mother's washed socks and clamped them one by one on the rope, and the rope turned into a multi-legged insect, crawling around in the sunshine. .
/ I clamped the small handkerchiefs washed by my sister on the rope one by one, / and the rope turned into a group of egrets, / flying, flying in the breeze. "Bold imagination based on life, relying on the ingenious conception of this imagination, turns ordinary life phenomena into a kind of child-like magic and endless beauty.
(4) Innocent and essence Language
Poetry is the art of language. Profound thoughts and vivid images can only become poems if they are expressed in concise, vivid, and expressive language. Children's poems should provide excellent opportunities for children to learn to master language. Conditions allow children to learn language and enrich their vocabulary in a beautiful language environment, improve their ability to control and appreciate language, and at the same time enjoy beauty. For example, in "The Sea Is Asleep" in Liu Raomin's "Song of the Sea": "The wind is sleeping." Stop making trouble, / the prodigal stopped laughing. / Late at night, / the sea sleeps. / She holds the bright moon, / She carries the stars on her back. /That gentle sound of tide,/is the sound of it snoring while sleeping. "In just a few words, the quiet and peaceful sea is presented to the reader, and the "mother" of the sea is vividly depicted using anthropomorphic techniques and extremely accurate wordings such as "holding", "carrying" and "snoring". The graceful posture when sleeping. Frequent recitation of such poems can not only improve children's aesthetic ability, but also learn and improve their ability to control and appreciate language. Children's Poems Goodbye
The beautiful language of children's poems. In addition to the accurate and appropriate refinement of words, the sound rhythm of poetry should be musical, that is, the phonology of poetry should have an aesthetic effect. Mr. Zhu Guangqian, an aesthetics expert, said: "The most direct expression of emotion is the rhythm of sound, and literary meaning reflects it. Next. Emotions that cannot be expressed in literary meaning can often be expressed by sound rhythm. " ("Selected Essays on Zhu Guangqian's Aesthetic Literature")
The musicality of children's poems is mainly reflected in rhyme and rhythm. Through changes in rhymes and well-proportioned sentence patterns, children of different ages are taken into consideration. At the same time, it can make the poem have a strong sense of music and rhythm, and form a neat and neat aesthetic feeling in the whole poem. The younger the children, the more neat the rhymes of the children's poems they read. "Little Bear Crossing the Bridge" (Jiang Yingwu), rhymes with "ao" to the end; the distinctive sense of rhythm in poems such as Wang'an's "Dili, Dili" and Lu Bing's "The Hole in the Chin" all give people The bright feeling of reading poetry is like singing, which makes children excited and gain a sense of beauty.
(5) Childlike and beautiful artistic conception
The combination of emotion and image constitutes the artistic conception of the poem. . The artistic conception should also be deliberately created in children's poems, and the goal should be to create a childish and beautiful artistic conception. People often say that the emotion of the poem should be attached to the image, and only the real children's feelings can be implied through the image. This kind of children's poetry can have a childlike and beautiful artistic conception, and can move children if it is expressed realistically instead of shouting abstractly. For example, "The Moon" by Liu Raomin: "The moon in the sky is round and round, / shining in the sea like a jade plate." /A school of fish swam over,/The jade plate broke into two or three pieces. / The fish was so frightened that it ran away / until it reached the rock. / Looking back, / the moon is still round and round. "In the static beauty of the moonlit sea, through the dynamic addition of the fish's "escape" and "seeing", in exquisite conception, a beautiful artistic conception of a group of small fish playing in the water and watching the moon is created, which has a fairy tale-like realm. , and full of childishness.