For example, western free verse:
Dream
Hold fast to dreams
Because if the dream is shattered,
Life is a bird with broken wings.
That can't fly
Hold fast to dreams
Because if dreams disappear,
Life is a barren land.
Be frozen by snow
Langston Hughes
Lu Xun also has free poems:
dream
Many dreams,
Make noise at dusk.
The previous dream drove away the previous dream,
The latter dream drove away the previous one.
……
Needless to say, metrical poems are more strict in sentence structure. Metric poems stipulate eight sentences, each with five words or seven words, which are called five laws or seven laws. There are also rules for antithesis and rhyme. Liu Xie said in "Wen Xin Diao Long": Different sounds are flat and flat, and flat and flat alternately produce rhythm, and the sound is harmonious and rhythmic, which is the rhyme of couplets.
It is these regulations and restrictions that make it different from ordinary language and show its ability and beauty. It should be said that poetry is a beautiful language. This beauty refers to the beauty in the aesthetic sense. It is different that aestheticians use elegance instead of beauty or beauty as the name of beauty. Because elegance means not only the beauty on the surface, but also the inner spirit.
Hegel pointed out in Aesthetics that aesthetic judgment determines beauty and aesthetic feeling.
This means that different countries, different classes, different people and even different times will have their own aesthetic judgments, so they will have different beauty and aesthetic feeling.
During the pre-Qin and Han dynasties, people regarded thinness as beauty, and Zou Ji was more than eight feet tall. Watching Wei Jie die. However, in the Tang dynasty, fullness was beauty; Guan likes big breasts and fat buttocks; Americans like hegemony and war; China people are keen on infrastructure; Lazy people like to hang out; Sewing girls like to be online celebrities; Ceng Shiqiang likes to sell his mouth; Hu Shi likes to visit the kiln; Fools like to join in the fun; Sprayer likes to talk nonsense; Those who are ignorant like to talk a lot. Bald powder likes to say Jiang Wu: like people; Trump likes to talk and not count; I slept with you on the other side of the world and got a lot of applause.
Poetry has rules, but only rules may not produce good poetry. When poetry expresses ambition, it is necessary to have feelings, and the most taboo is moaning. But now there is a lot of fart on the internet, which is very dangerous and harmful to life.
Being a poet is certainly a bit difficult. We must understand history, society, country and people. It is my duty to understand poetry, and the premise of understanding poetry is to read classic poems. You must read The Book of Songs, Songs of the South, Han Fu, Tang Poetry, Song Poetry and Yuan Qu. We should also read foreign poems, such as Don Juan by Byron, Faust by Goethe and so on. If you know English, you can also read the contemporary epic The Waste Land. Knowing the ancient and modern Chinese and foreign poems, it is easier to write poems.
Although I agree with your point of view seriously, can you ask those "poets" to agree?
When a person is called a poet by others, it is brilliant, and he has the opportunity to get the same label as Li Bai and Du Fu. Everywhere, stars shine, flowers applaud and fans are beautiful.
Another person can't write poetry at all, so he pretends to be deep, writes some words and calls himself a poet. Do you really have the heart to break the poet dream of these people? How can you make others realize the wonderful things he has got, is about to get or expects to get?
The greatest era of poetry has passed and will never appear again. Only works will be produced in the future, not fine works.
Like Beijing opera, the most classic era of Beijing opera has passed. Only works will be produced in the future, not fine works.
The development of the times, rhythm, soil, people's various interests and hobbies and many other factors determine that traditional culture can not be restored to its peak. They will always be the cornerstone of China culture. On the basis of such a cornerstone, there will inevitably be more and more novel and different cultures and arts blooming.
So your opinion can't stand scrutiny, and you will hurt 99% of poets. Be careful what you say will cause public anger, let those poets jointly sue you, or collectively write poems to scold you, and saliva will drown your neck and make you sick.
I'm sure your little body can't stop it.
Even if they agree, your little body can't stop it. Have you asked people if their prose will be criticized? Who does prose attract and annoy, and who attracts blame for no reason? From this point of view, it is not appropriate to call it a small prose, and the only suitable one is called "Sanzi".
I must run faster, or I will be beaten worse.
Let the poet continue to be a poet. Let them leave their hair on the left or right. Let them continue to be sloppy, broad-minded and artistic.
We only leave the real poems, with the distance.
Modern poetry is not so much prose as poetry, because there are obvious differences between them.
Modern poetry is eclectic in format and rhythm, which breaks through the characteristics of ancient poetry, such as "gentle and sincere, mourning without complaining", and puts more emphasis on freedom, openness, direct expression and sensory communication.
Prose is a narrative literary genre, which expresses the author's true feelings and flexible writing style.
The characteristics of modern poetry are: free form, informal format; Open and straightforward connotation; Image management is more important than rhetoric; It has a high degree of generality, vivid image, strong lyricism and musical harmony, and it is arranged in branches in form.
Prose is characterized by: scattered form and concentrated spirit (wide subject matter, diverse writing style, but concentrated in the center); Deep artistic conception (paying attention to life feelings, strong lyricism and sincere feelings); Beautiful language (fresh and lively (also beautiful), full of music).
Two typical characteristics of poetry are its appeal and imagination, its form may be scattered, its spirit may be gathered, it is free and open; The important feature of prose is that god gathers without branching. In any case, the central idea must be concentrated.
In addition, because poetry needs imagination, sometimes it is unconstrained and unconstrained, and it needs to be arranged. If it is not divided like prose, it is difficult to understand.
In modern times, there is a style between modern poetry and prose called prose poetry, which has the characteristics of both poetry and prose. It has no branches and looks like prose in form, but its connotation is more like poetry.
In a word, it is inappropriate for modern poetry to be called small prose.
Is modern poetry without format and rhythm still called poetry? Is it more appropriate to call it prose?
The source of modern poetry is Guo Moruo and other older literary masters. According to the development of domestic culture, they think that China's ancient poems can't adapt to the popularization of China's poems. Only by learning from the expressions of western culture and art can this be western poetry.
It has no formal requirements and no rhythmic stress. Beautiful words, profound artistic conception and straightforward expression. And it's written in vernacular Chinese. Accepted by the public, you can understand the meaning of poetry at a glance.
For example, the night of the Russian poet Ye Saining;
The river flows quietly into the dream.
The dark pine forest lost its noise.
The nightingale's song fell silent.
Long-legged crake no longer crows happily.
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At first glance, you can know that poetry is lyrical, full of charm and easy to understand.
There are indeed some modern poems. As you said, it is better to call them short essays.
That depends on how we look at poetry writing, whether we have a correct attitude, whether we really absorb the essence of poetry and inherit the culture and art of poetry.
The road of poetry is still tortuous, depending on how we do, how we walk and how we think.
Still depends on whether there are poems. If there is no poem, leave some format and rhythm. What does it have to do with poetry?