Second, according to the content, it can be divided into farewell poems, frontier poems, pastoral poems, nostalgic poems (poems about history), mourning poems, wandering poems and in my heart forever's poems.
Thirdly, the classification of modern poetry.
There are also many ways to classify poems, which can be divided into different categories according to different principles and standards. The basics are as follows:
1, narrative poems and lyric poems. This is divided according to the expression of the content of the work.
Narrative poem: There are relatively complete story lines and characters in the poem, which are usually expressed by the poet's passionate singing.
Epic, story poem and poetic novel all belong to this category.
Ancient Greek Homer's epics such as Heriat and Odyssey; China poet Li Ji's Wang Gui and Li Xiangxiang and other story poems; Don Juan by British poet Byron and Eugene by Russian poet Pushkin? Onegin.
Lyrics: mainly reflect social life by directly expressing the poet's thoughts and feelings, and do not require complete stories and characters.
2. Metric poems, free poems and prose poems. This is classified according to the phonological meter and structural form of the language of the work.
Metric poem: a poem written according to a certain format and rules. It has strict rules on the number of lines, the number of words (or syllables), the tone and rhyme, the antithesis of words and the arrangement of sentence patterns. Such as the metrical poems, quatrains and songs in China's ancient poems and the European sonnets.
Free verse: a newly developed poetic style in modern Europe and America. It is not limited by metrical rules, has no fixed format, pays attention to natural and internal rhythm, and uses rhymes roughly similar or without rhymes. The number of words, lines, sentence patterns and tones are relatively free, and the language is relatively popular.
Whitman, an American poet (1819-1892), is the founder of European and American free verse, and Leaves of Grass is his main collection of poems. This poetic style has also become popular in China since the May 4th Movement.
Prose poetry is a literary genre with both prose and poetry characteristics. There are poetic artistic conception and passion in the works, which are often full of philosophy, paying attention to the rhythm of nature and the beauty of music. The length is short, like prose, and it does not rhyme, such as Lu Xun's Weeds.
Poetry is the oldest and most literary style. Labor songs and folk songs, which originated from ancient people, were originally the floorboard of poems and songs. At first, there was no distinction between poetry and song, but poetry and music and dance were combined into one, collectively called poetry.
China's poems have a long history and rich heritage, such as the songs of Chu in The Book of Songs, the works of Han Yuefu and countless poets. Poetry in western Europe was created by Homer and Caesar in ancient Greece, Virgil and Horace in ancient Rome.