Appreciation of Poetry (Excerpt)

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Poetry only establishes a spiritual channel with the poet, through which he transmits, diffuses, hints and perceives information and experience. If poetry is a string of codes of the soul, then the key and power to decipher them will always be in the hands of the poet. In this sense, the poet is the one who really has the ability to evaluate poetry.

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Art appreciation is a thorough discovery, inspiration and cognition of personality. Just like steamed bread likes red tofu and green onions like white tofu. No one can change the hobby of this experience.

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Epistemology divides people into two categories: the first category keeps a distance from the truth more or less, which is characterized by high humility in thought or logical hesitation in behavior, most of which are like this; The second kind of people try their best to seek the possibility of keeping pace with things, showing a kind of courage and profound insight. There are very few such people. They eventually become leaders or poets because they are outstanding, superior and duty-bound.

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The biggest difference between poetry and novel prose is that novel prose can be built on almost any narrative material, while poetry can only be built on poetry; Only when poets discover poetry in an illogical or irrational way can readers share and enrich their discoveries with the help of logical or rational experiences. On the contrary, poets can only eat their own tails.

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The meaning of metaphor is not that one thing refers to another, but that it awakens or activates the magical connection between two unrelated things. This passage means that everything is related, whether it is bright or dark, whether it is real or virtual, whether it is direct or indirect, whether it is internal or external.

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The palace of poetry is not composed of adjectives, and poetry has little to do with description. Poetry is a conjoined image, an alliance of poetry and poetry, and a mysterious "kingdom" composed of nouns. However, what we often see is that some people who aspire to become poets always push a car full of adjectives, like farmers pushing dung carts and sweating into the fields of poetry.

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Paradox is the extreme of thought, transcending thinking, just like snow lotus on the ice peak, detached from the world, it blooms not for dazzling colors, but for dust. Behind the paradox, profundity often replaces logic with humor or even absurdity.

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Cutting is to cut off the cloth other than the coat or trousers to make a whole coat or trousers. Maybe this cloth is big enough to cut out three coats or two trousers, but that's the next cut. The deletion of poetry is not to make poetry more like poetry, on the contrary, what needs to be deleted is: the part that is more like poetry.

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No matter how long or short a poem is, there will never be more than three lines of paragraphs that are truly meaningful or valuable. Other parts, either cater to form or are flattering words. For poets, the purity and abandonment of language is equivalent to the emperor's concubine.

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Even the smallest orchard cannot hold a basket. Poetry is just an apple in the orchard. The essence of poetry is one word: subtraction. Put a "basket" of fruit on the table, then a "basket" is a shrinking orchard; Taking an apple, two bananas and some strawberries to make a fruit bowl is a reduction of a "basket" of fruits. The technique of poetry is from ten lines to nine lines. People with insufficient intelligence make things very complicated.

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The essence of subtraction is not only reflected in the reduction of words; More importantly, it is reflected in leaving words. Subtracting a word or a word is not subtraction; Subtracting a paragraph or a few lines of poetry is not subtraction; Even if a poem is completely subtracted, it is not subtracted; If the light is reduced, what is the significance of the light reduction? Subtraction is not a quantitative process, but a sublimation process of "optimization and recombination". It is easy to reduce, but not easy to stay; The meaning of subtraction is to leave: subtract the excess and leave the essence.

How to appreciate poetry

1, look at the beginning

Articles are like running water, so are ancient poems. The beginning is often directed at the theme, explaining what to write, or creating an atmosphere, or setting the tone.

To understand the beginning of a poem, we should first try to relate it to the topic.

The second is to highlight the five "he": who, when, where, what and what, and grasping these five "he" will also grasp the source of a poem.

The third is to understand the emotional tone.

2. Reading beauty

The third or third sentence of modern poetry is often different from the previous sentence in content or writing. The beauty of ancient poetry can be a sentence (sometimes a "poetic eye"), an image, a sentence and a plot.

Step 3 read the changes

The third or third sentence of modern poetry is often different from the previous sentence in content or writing. Content, often from the previous narrative or description to discussion or lyric.

4. Look at the scenery

The description of scenery in ancient poetry is often not isolated, but closely related to the feelings expressed by the author. Therefore, to read the scenery, we should be good at reading the feelings in the scenery. There are also various forms of expression of the relationship between scenery and emotion, such as scene blending, borrowing scenery to express feelings, empathy into the scene, touching the scene to create feelings, borrowing scenery to set off feelings and so on.

5. Read the image

The "scenery" and "things" written in poetry are objective "images"; The "feelings" expressed by borrowing scenery and the "aspirations" expressed by borrowing things are subjective "intentions". In poetry, many scenes are often used to express specific feelings, which is the so-called "image".

Step 6 read allusions

In ancient poetry, there are often chants about ancient things and monuments, and there are also ways to quote or borrow previous poems. This requires teachers and students not to "see the trees but not the forest" when understanding. "Borrowing someone else's glass to water your own block" is a major feature of this kind of poetry. When we understand it, we should compare the ancient events with the poet's reality from many angles, so as to accurately grasp the author's feelings.

7. Read the main ideas

The understanding of the theme of poetry needs to be grasped as a whole, and the relationship between the contents should be thoroughly understood, and the ideas should be sorted out, so it must not be treated in isolation. In addition, we should pay more attention to lyric sentences in poetry, especially at the end of poetry.

8. Reading skills

We should also establish the consciousness of "technique" when reading poetry. It is necessary to understand related concepts and thoroughly understand their characteristics.

There are many "skills" in poetry, which are mainly divided into the following three aspects: expression: description, discussion and lyricism.

In particular, we should understand the different characteristics of positive description and side description, direct lyric and indirect lyric. Rhetoric methods: metaphor, personification, comparison, pun, rhetorical question, exaggeration, antithesis, metonymy, etc. We should have a deep understanding of their characteristics and use them correctly when answering questions.

Means of expression: a wide range, such as comparison, contrast, bedding, bedding, care, suspense, symbolism, cadence, truth, lyricism through scenery, scene blending, emotional blending, emotional touching, sadness through music scenes, topic orientation at the end of the article, ambition through things, irony through the past and so on.

9. Read a poet

As the saying goes, appreciation of poetry should be able to "know people and discuss the world", that is, appreciation of poetry should be combined with the poet's life background. All poems are actually what poets see, hear, feel and think. Poets' aesthetic taste, ideal personality and influence of the times are often reflected in their poetry creation.

10, reading class

Qian Qian is a poet and Qian Qian is a poet, but no matter how many changes, poetry can still be classified. Each kind of poetry has its own characteristics, and grasping these characteristics will help to appreciate poetry better.