We believe that the basic principles of poetry creation have not changed for thousands of years, no matter how the form and content of poetry evolve, no matter how the creators explore, experiment and innovate, the principles of poetry creation are the same-concise, emphasizing music and creative environment.
Today, we will focus on the sense of music in poetry, that is, the voice of poetry-rhythm, pitch fluctuation, word harmony and rhythm harmony.
Poetry creation is very old, and the embryonic form of poetry was formed in the production activities of our ancestors. A group of strong men asked Qi Xin to work together to move heavy objects and make a rhythmic sound of "hey, hey, hey", which is the embryonic form of Er Yan's poem. Telling the truth to God at the time of sacrifice is the content of poetry. From the beginning, poetry is a unique language form used in special scenes-using language to add tone and rhythm, or using language to add musical instruments to dance, and singing and dancing, which played a role in the work, sacrifice and spread of our ancestors in the legend of heroes.
Language is not only the carrier of poetry, but also the content and expression of poetry. We should pay attention to the fact that poetry is first used for speaking, singing and listening, and it is mouth to mouth and mouth to mouth. Not for reading, but for the preservation and memory of words after they appear. Language is for speaking, and words are for seeing. This requires us to pay attention to the "sweetness" of poetry when creating poetry, and to stand up to reading and listening, speaking and singing, not watching. Our later poetry creation is more and more inclined to look at words, read silently in our hearts, and exert association, imagination and tacit understanding, which weakens the expressive force of poetry in language and emotion and weakens the function of poetry expression and expression. It also reduces the interactivity of poetry, and the practical function of reality (face-to-face communication and interaction between people based on poetry) degenerates-later people do not necessarily read poems aloud, nor do they have to read them to another person, which is obviously different from chanting words (using scenes) during sacrifice.
Nevertheless, we still advocate the readability of poetry and advocate that poetry creators attach importance to the special role of sound in poetry language, so as to make poetry more readable and expressive of musical sense.
In poetry creation, the poet should consciously handle the rhythm, the fluctuation of tone and the harmony of rhythm. They will strongly and directly express the emotional state of poetry in sound, fully mobilize people's various senses, thus making poetry more powerful.
For example, the speed of the rhythm, the misuse of the refrain "looking for cold, looking for clarity, looking for sadness and looking for misery" naturally slowed down when reading, and the feeling of sadness came out in that sound effect. If overlapping "Hua La" and "Tu Tu Diagram" are used, the reading speed will naturally be accelerated, the rhythm will become urgent, and the high agitation effect will be easy to show.
Everyone goes to see the actors read their lines. If the same sentence is spoken in different rhythms, accents and tones, it will definitely have different feelings, different effects and even different meanings. What kind of emotion adapts to what kind of rhythm and tone is what the poet should try to adjust, which is related to the artistic charm of poetry. Dumb poems are not worth taking.
For example, why do poems rhyme? Because it is easy to say it when it is smooth, the mood will be easily strengthened. Using words with the same "frequency" in space to cause sound vibration will make the content more vivid and impressive, and the sound will be more pleasant and acceptable.
Why should poetry be even? Because of the ups and downs of tone changes between words, the contrast of voices is obvious, the emotions are more powerful in the ups and downs, and the aesthetic feeling of voices is given in the orderly staggered arrangement.
The ancients paid great attention to the musical sense of poetry when writing poetry, but modern poetry was poor. Modern poetry is freer in writing and seems more flexible in word collocation, but the acoustic effect in poetry is weakened or even missing, which is very contrary to the principle of poetry creation.
We advocate the readability of modern poetry creation, and the sense of music should be reflected in poetry. If the poet doesn't find a better way, he should actively learn from the ancients, don't ignore the sound effect for novelty, and don't use the writing and stress of modern poetry as an excuse to express the musical sense of poetry. The reason why poetry is poetry is that the sense of music is a key factor.
Of course, we should also realize that modern poetry creation does not necessarily need to be flat and even, does not necessarily need to rhyme, and does not necessarily need to adopt a fixed format of five or seven words. So, where will the musical sense of poetry come from? Of course, poets should have their own active exploration, break through some barriers of metrical poetry and break through the inherent paradigm, which means that poets have stronger artistic ability, have a clearer and deeper grasp of the inherent laws of poetry creation, and can flexibly and appropriately combine and use poetic and emotional words in modern Chinese, just like doctors, gentlemen, ministers and assistants are properly matched. If you don't have this ability, then honestly and actively learn from the ancients.
Finally, record a few representative modern poems for everyone to feel.
"There are wild flowers on the grassland that witness the death of the gods, which are farther than far." (rhymes)
"Pingping Pingping Pingping Pingping Pingping Pingping Pingping Pingping Pingping Pingping Pingping Pingping Pingping Pingping Pingping Pingping Pingping Pingping.
"The night gave me black eyes, but I used them to look for light." (rhymes)
"Flat, flat, flat, flat, flat."
"The east wind doesn't come, the catkins don't fly in March, and the heart is like a lonely city." (Not rhyming)
"Pingping Pingping Pingping Pingping Pingping Pingping Pingping Pingping Pingping Pingping Pingping Pingping Pingping Pingping Pingping Pingping Pingping Pingping Pingping Pingping Pingping Pingping Pingping Pingping Pingping.
"Bare-armed shepherds on the grassland leaned out their sabres and tasted the first snow."
"Flat, flat, flat, flat, flat."
Some of these classic modern poems rhyme, some don't rhyme, and they are not written in strict accordance with the rules of parallelism and parallelism. The parallel lines are elastic, but they are basically staggered, showing the musical sense of poetry. Let you learn from the ancients, not according to the gourd painting gourd ladle, but to go deep into the law of poetry creation and use it flexibly.
The flow of poetic language is regarded as the flow of music, and the sound effect of words is combined with the melody sense of scale combination in music. There is no doubt that such a poetic language must have a sense of music, and its readability is naturally greatly enhanced, adding artistic appeal. Friends, if modern poetry is not written in the form of novels and essays, the expression of musical sense will play a great role, and creators must pay attention to it.
-Hu