Ancient poetry: concise language and rich connotation.
1, modern poetry
(1) Introduction to Modern Poetry:
Modern poetry, also known as "vernacular poetry", can be traced back to the late Qing Dynasty, which is a kind of poetry. Compared with classical poetry, although it is written for feeling things, it is generally informal in format and rhythm.
Modern poetry is free in form and rich in connotation. Image management is more important than rhetoric application, which completely breaks through the characteristics of ancient poetry "gentle and sincere, mourning without complaining", and emphasizes free and open, straightforward statement and communication between sensible and intangible.
(2) Features:
Modern poetry is free in form and rich in connotation. Image management is more important than rhetoric application. Compared with ancient poetry, although they all perceive things and reflect the soul, they completely break through the characteristics of ancient poetry, which are "gentle and sincere, sad without resentment", and emphasize more on free and open, straightforward statements and communication between the sensible and the intangible.
The mainstream of modern poetry is free verse. Free verse is the product of the May 4th New Culture Movement, which adopts vernacular in form, breaking the shackles of old-style poetry, and mainly reflects new life and expresses new ideas in content.
(3) Classification:
According to the form: metrical poems, free poems.
According to genre: fairy tale poems, fable poems, prose poems, verse poems, etc.
According to the forms of expression: narrative poems and lyric poems.
2. Ancient poems:
(1) Introduction to Ancient Poetry:
Ancient poetry is the general name of ancient Chinese poetry, which refers to 1840 China's poems before the Opium War. From the perspective of meter, ancient poetry can be divided into ancient poetry and modern poetry. Taking the Tang Dynasty as the boundary, the previous poems were all ancient poems, and later, the ancient poems gradually declined and died out. Ancient poetry is also called ancient poetry or ancient style; Modern poetry is also called modern poetry. From the Book of Songs to Yu Xin in the Southern and Northern Dynasties, they are all ancient poems, but the poems after the Tang Dynasty are not necessarily modern poems, but they are distinguished according to rhyme.
(2) the difference between classical poetry and modern poetry:
Classical poetry:
Classical poetry is written in the style of ancient poetry. In the Tang Dynasty, Yu Xin was an ancient prose from the Southern and Northern Dynasties, so there was no certain standard for the poetic style of the so-called ancient prose. However, the ancient poems written by poets are consistent in one thing, that is, they are not bound by the rhythm of modern poetry. A kind of metrical poem, which began to form in the early Tang Dynasty, has strict rules on the number of words, rhyme and antithesis, which is what we call modern poetry. Modern poetry is relative to ancient poetry. Poets in the Tang Dynasty and beyond still wrote classical poems. We can say. Anything that is not bound by the near-body meter is an ancient poem. Classical poetry is divided into four-character poems, five-character poems and seven-character poems.
Modern poetry:
Modern poetry is divided into metrical poems and quatrains. The difference between metrical poems and quatrains mainly lies in the number of sentences. There are four quatrains and eight rhyming poems. There are eight metrical poems, one or two of which are the first couplet, three or four are the parallel couplet, five or six are the neck couplet, and seven or eight are the tail couplet. Quatrains are also called "sentence cutting". Sonnets may or may not be antagonistic, but they must be antagonistic to each other. Both quatrains and quatrains require even numbers. A metrical poem with more than eight sentences is called arrangement.
(3) Development process:
In the late Northern and Southern Dynasties, some poems began to emphasize rhythm and duality, but they have not yet formed a complete rhythm, which is a form of transition from ancient style to modern style poetry, or "new style poetry". Some ancient poems in the Tang Dynasty tend to be legalized, such as Wang Bo, which is an ancient poem, but it is even and harmonious, with eight sentences, similar to two quatrains with seven words and two rhymes. After the Tang dynasty's metrical poems were finalized, the poets' ancient works were often integrated into the modern sentence pattern. Such as Wang Wei, Li Qi, Wang Changling and Meng Haoran, there are quite a few rhymes and couplets in the five ancient books. For example, Bai Juyi and < The Story of the Pipa > have many famous articles and sentences like this. However, some poets are consciously different from the modern style, often using awkward sentences and occasionally prose, and Li Bai, Du Fu and Han Yu have all created something. Later, scholars in Ming and Qing Dynasties consciously noticed the phenomenon that ancient poems were merged into regular sentences and strange sentences were used to avoid regular sentences. In Qing Dynasty, Wang Shizhen thought that ancient poems were flat-voiced, so Zhao Zhixin, Weng Fanggang and others specially studied the tones of ancient poems. Their research has contributed to consciously distinguishing ancient and modern rhythms in poetry creation, but it seems far-fetched because it ignores the fact that ancient poems are mainly natural syllables, and even ridiculed as "it is useless not to treat them as secrets."
reference data
Ancient Poetry Network: http://www.gushiwen.org/