Look at the topic:
The title of a poem is often closely related to the content of the poem, such as pointing out the content of the poem and setting the emotional tone. When reading, we should pay attention to combining the content of the poem with its title. If you look at the title of the poem, you may get unexpected gains.
For example, if the title is Zuiwengcao, you can refer to Zuiwengting Ji, and infer from the title that this poem may be related to Ouyang Xiu. The title of Du Fu's Moonlit Night tells us the background of writing. The brief but pleasant encounter with brother-in-law "Meeting by chance, just for parting" shows the emotional changes in poetry.
Look at the writing background. To truly understand a poem, we must know people and discuss the world.
When reading a poem, if the poet's experience and the national conditions of the dynasty in which the poet lived are mentioned in the notes, it is necessary to contact these backgrounds and fully understand the emotions.
View topic:
Poetry can be classified according to the theme, such as homesick poems, epic poems, farewell poems, frontier poems, pastoral poems and so on. The common emotional theme in each theme is limited. Knowing this knowledge helps us to understand the emotional theme of poetry.
When reading a poem, we can pay attention to its content and theme to help us judge.
For example, "West Village" is a place. It can be inferred from the title that this poem may be an idyllic poem describing rural life or an ancient poem describing the history of the ancients after they came to the West Village. Combined with the contents of the following poems, we can conclude that this is an idyllic poem, and the determination of the theme will help us better grasp the theme of the poem.
Look at the picture:
Image is the object that contains the author's emotion. In classical poetry, some images appear repeatedly in the works of different poets in different times, and their meanings are stable. These common images should be grasped as common sense in reading poetry.
Common images generally have conventional meanings. However, these common images sometimes have unconventional meanings in the poet's works. At the same time, poetry is more an image created by the poet improvisation, and its meaning is not conventional, so it needs to be grasped from specific works.
Look at the content:
In the process of reading poetry, we should grasp the characteristics of the scenery described, the process of the events described, the significance of the allusions quoted, and the characteristics of the objects described, and then call our own knowledge to feel and understand.
Find keywords (sentences):
Words in the poem that reveal the author's thoughts and feelings.
For example, Su Shi's Ding Fengbo? The word "Don't listen to the sound of beating leaves in the forest" was written in the third year after being demoted to Huangzhou. It focuses on the prospect of natural phenomena and philosophy of life. The two sentences in the poem, "Mist and rain are coming, the wind fills the building" and "Rain or shine", are obviously the true reflection of the author's indifferent mood.