Poetry is a poem, song is a song, two things and two concepts, which belong to completely different creative techniques.
Like most people, I can't remember modern poems or the lyrics of many modern songs. On the contrary, I remember the melodies of many songs I sang, and I can still hum them.
The melody of music belongs to the perceptual part and is easy to remember. As long as it is good music, the lyrics are always easy to forget, and so are modern poems: many excellent modern poems can only produce a sense of * * * when read, but most of the words are forgotten after reading.
I used to like reading Wang Guozhen's modern poems. I like them because there are many inexplicable clear and transparent textures in Wang's poems, such as clear springs in the mountains, which are sweet and rich in various minerals beneficial to people's spirit.
But I can't remember the content of Wang's poems, even the title, unless I search Wang Guozhen's poems online.
Modern poetry is used to savor, and the lyrics of modern songs are mostly used to sing. The appreciation methods of the two are different, and the creative techniques they need are completely different: modern poetry pays more attention to the volatilization of free and unrestrained artistic conception, and its expression forms can be completely eclectic; Modern songs are different. Whether a modern song can be adopted by composers and widely sung and appreciated by people depends on whether the creators of modern songs can firmly grasp the listening psychology of the audience, not whether they can grasp the reading psychology of the readers.
What is the difference between listening psychology and reading psychology?
The premise of listening psychology lies in music accompaniment, while reading psychology mostly belongs to readers' pure telepathy, that is to say, the premise of listening psychology is to listen before reading, and reading psychology is to read before psychological induction.
The fixed characteristics of auditory psychology require that the creation of modern songs must meet the basic requirements of catchy and easy to remember. In China, catchy and memorable features are mainly metrical poems and rhyming modern lyrics.
At first, most of the ancient lyrics and folk songs were sung to match the Hu music introduced into the Central Plains from the northern minority areas. Later, Hu Le disappeared, but the literary genre of poetry and songs was handed down as a literary context, so that many modern people absurdly thought that ancient poetry and songs were originally pure literary genres, not words written for music. In this regard, I think the Book of Songs itself is what the ancients sang.
However, both ancient poetry and modern poetry can spread and develop to the present era, and its singing function has become weaker and weaker, while its literary characteristics are obviously stronger and richer: classical poetry and modern poetry can no longer rely on factors conducive to singing to require the poet's creative techniques and specific forms of expression, because they have long been integrated into the field of pure literature, rather than lyrics that can be sung everywhere in the market.
If we put aside the accompaniment factor of music and re-examine many lyrics that have been sung by us for a long time from the standpoint of reading modern poetry, we will suddenly find many problems: many lyrics of pop music, many of which have been sung by countless people for a long time, are not poetic, or even have poetic connotation: most of the lyrics are just colloquial in life, and anyone can understand, understand and remember them immediately, because most of them rhyme.
However, it is difficult to appreciate most of the lyrics as modern poems from the perspective of pure literature, because the lyrics belong to audio-visual art and can only be circulated with the accompaniment of music. Without the accompaniment of music, most of the lyrics can hardly occupy a place in a literary garden, because most of the lyrics of pop songs without audio-visual factors have almost no literary aesthetic feeling and beautiful humanistic spirit and emotional connotation.
Therefore, if you want to create lyrics, you should not only pay attention to the basic requirements of catchy and easy to remember, but also meet other requirements necessary for creating lyrics. These requirements also mean that the content of the lyrics must conform to the living language habits of the vast majority of ordinary people, must have a certain rhyme, must make the paragraphs clear, the number of lines in each paragraph is almost the same as the number of words in the same line between different paragraphs, and also leave key lyrics paragraphs in the melody part of the song for repeated singing.
In other words, the creation of lyrics must respect the actual audio-visual effect, while the creation of modern poetry can evaporate freely, because modern poetry does not belong to singing music, but is only one of the pure literary genres.
Tasting modern poetry and singing modern songs are completely different concepts: the former reads with eyes and feels with heart, while the latter feels with ears and intuition. Perhaps the most important thing is to feel the melody part of music, not the lyrics part.
Tasting modern poetry is a very subtle and beautiful experience. Many things hidden in modern poetry are almost unspeakable but can be clearly understood.
Many excellent modern poems, although the author may not be known, are not necessarily good or classic works.
On the Internet, many modern poems are actually well-written, refined and dignified, although their authors may never be known, and they have never been praised by moldy bodies. Moldy bodies always like to pay attention to and praise nothing but entertainment and gossip, but have they really paid attention to pure literature and art?
Many excellent modern poems on the Internet not only don't conform to the old rules, but also don't rhyme. On the contrary, they often like to break the rules. This is naturally an innovative process: who is qualified to say what laws literary and artistic creation must follow in order to produce good works? Does he want to be a modern authoritarianism?
The vitality of literature and art lies in breaking the rules, constantly innovating and bravely meeting the challenges of new things and new times. Modern poetry creation is no exception.
However, no matter how innovative and developed modern poetry is, the spiritual connotation is also indispensable, and the literariness and readability cannot be lost, otherwise it will really become the most empty and pale lyrics.
I applaud countless unknown poets who have worked silently in modern poetry, and I deeply regret that ugly phenomena such as Zhao Lihua and lower-body poets have appeared in modern poetry: real literary creation has always been like this, and only those who have been working silently and selflessly are the most worthy of our attention, while Zhao Lihua and Han Han, who like to grandstanding on moldy corpses all day, are not our kind and have nothing to do with real literature.
Reading modern poetry is an extreme spiritual enjoyment, especially when reading many excellent works, it will produce a pleasant and extraordinary psychological induction-although many excellent authors of modern poetry are unknown, this does not prevent us from reading modern poetry, especially enjoying their enthusiasm!