Second, the image should be beautiful. China's classical poems focus on artistic conception, which can't be produced without the creation of images. In fact, whether it is China's classical poetry or modern western poetry, all excellent poems pay attention to the combination of reality and fiction, and pay attention to colorful images, which is the essence of poetry. With images, poetry will be implicit like a dream, avoiding the dull expression of the soul and gestating colorful artistic conception. Pound, the leader of American Imagist, was deeply influenced by China's classical poems. Many symbolic poems are also the result of reusing images. However, images should be constantly innovated and not outdated, otherwise the poems produced will have no artistic appeal.
The third is to be beautiful. No matter facing life, love or society, China's poems have always had all kinds of realm beauty. The realm is the ideological level, but it should go beyond the ideological level, have more depth and breadth than the ideological level, give readers endless imagination space, purify readers' souls and sublimate readers' emotions. In order to make poetry have the beauty of realm, we should first make a profound study of Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism and even the Western Bible, and at the same time pay more attention to the fate of people's life, society and country. Xie Mian, a famous poetry critic, once criticized the contemporary new poetry as "too addicted to whispering and soliloquizing". Most writers of new poetry don't care about their own life and society. Coupled with the obscurity of poetry, in the tide of market economy, it is no wonder that poetry has been ignored by the public to the corner of society. Li Songtao, a famous poet, also said with emotion: "I am obsessed with the function of literature and firmly believe that poetry is a natural connection with society and the public, and it is a blood relationship. ..... Poetry is an aria of life and life. When a poet is full of life, he is full of blood, and if he loves life, he will never make a mistake. " Yes, writing poetry is not only to express one's feelings, but also to be responsible for society. I call on Qu Yuan's spirit, Li Bai's spirit, Du Fu's spirit and Lu Xun's spirit to "care about the country and the people". Where there is light in the world, there is darkness. Light needs to be summoned and darkness needs to be whipped, so that the poems of "Qu Yuan spirit, Li Bai spirit, Du Fu spirit and Lu Xun spirit" can overflow our Yangtze River and Yellow River like waves.
The fourth is to have a beautiful structure. Peng Yanjiao, a poet of July School, mentioned in his poem "Structure and Formal Beauty": "Structure is the starting point of formal beauty. If the structure is not well thought out, the work itself will lose its formal beauty. ..... the structure reflects the relationship between the beauty of content and the beauty of form. " One of the most outstanding advantages of China's classical poetry is that it attaches importance to the beauty of structure and vision, which is what Lv Jin called "format". Tang poetry is like this, so is Song poetry. I appreciate the long and short sentences of Song poetry. Every epitaph is different, and the long and short sentences of different epitaphs are different and varied, which inspired me deeply. I feel that the structure of new poetry is not necessarily like the "architectural beauty" proposed by Wen Yiduo, but is full of flowers, diverse forms and eclectic. As long as there are rules to follow, readers can feel the visual beauty, and the stanzas can be neat, but the number of words in the sentences does not have to be equal, just like the long and short sentences in Song poetry, because the sentences in vernacular poetry are not as concise as those in ancient poetry, limiting the number of words will often dilute the aesthetic feeling of the language and reduce the number of words that need to be supplemented.