There are eight main types of poetry: ①Folk songs. It is a literary form that is created orally by working people, spread orally, and is continuously processed during the spread. It is short, lively, fresh and vigorous, with a strong flavor of life. In terms of content, folk songs can profoundly and vividly express the lives, will and aspirations of the people. From the perspective of expressive novels, it often uses techniques such as overlapping, elaboration, contrast, questions and answers, metaphors, puns, and chains.
②Narrative poetry. Poems with relatively complete plots and characters, mainly expressing the author's thoughts or emotions through the depiction of specific life scenes.
③Lyric poetry. Poems whose plot is incomplete and whose purpose is not to create characters but to directly express the author's thoughts and feelings and reflect social life are called lyric poems.
④Rhyme poetry. It refers to poems that have certain specifications in form, certain rules in phonology, and any changes that need to be processed according to certain rules. There are many types of metrical poetry, such as five- and seven-character quatrains and rhythmic poetry in old-style poetry. There are strict regulations on the number of words, level, antithesis, and rhyme. European ten-line poems follow certain rules in terms of the number of lines, the number of stanzas, the number of words in each line, the number of pauses, as well as the rhyme, rhyme, and rhyme changes. It is also a kind of metrical poem.
⑤Free verse. It is a poem in which there are no certain restrictions on the number of words and syllables in each line, and there are no certain rules for dividing lines. It can also be divided into sections, but the number of lines in each section does not necessarily need to be the same. The rhyme is also relatively free.
⑥Recite poetry. A poem composed specifically for recital performance. In addition to the characteristics of general poetry, it should also pay special attention to the harmony of tone and clarity.
⑦ Prose poetry. That is, poetry written in prose form. It has the general characteristics of prose, such as short length and wide range of themes; flexible expression and diverse techniques; direct expression of one's feelings and focusing on meaning; scattered form and concentrated spirit, broad but not complicated. But it is more concise than ordinary prose language, has greater leaps in content, has a poetic artistic conception, often contains rich philosophy in a limited space, and is saturated with the author's strong thoughts and feelings.
⑧Children’s poems. That is, poetry written by children, or poetry written for children. Children's poems mostly reflect children's tastes, life personalities, as well as their feelings about objective things and their yearning for a better future. There are many types, including children's songs, nursery rhymes, fairy tale poems, fable poems, children's story poems, etc. Children's poems are short and lively in form, with simple and vivid words, bright rhythm and loud rhymes. Based on the children's age, psychological characteristics and knowledge level, there are Specific images and moving details often use exaggeration and personification techniques to concretize and visualize some profound truths.
▲How to write poetry?
①The intention should be high. How high the author's ideological level and cognitive ability are, how deep the theme of the poem is. If the foothold is not high, the style of the poem will not be high. The key to writing a poem well is not the technique but the level of thought, not the materials. And in the depth of exploring the theme. Therefore, writing poetry must strengthen ideological cultivation and continuously improve the ability to understand objective things.
②The idea should be new. To achieve new ideas, we must have a novel artistic conception, a novel image, and a novel and ingenious design. In a word, from subject selection to theme deepening, from image description to the use of rhetorical techniques, there should be new and unique discoveries and creations.
③ Use a variety of rhetorical techniques. If poetry wants to highly summarize life, it needs to use the most refined language to depict a distinct artistic image; if poetry wants to express strong emotions, it needs to use various rhetorical techniques to strengthen the feelings of the poem. Commonly used rhetorical techniques in poetry include: rise, metaphor, contrast, exaggeration, opposition, overlap, repetition, etc.