Metric poetry, also known as modern poetry, is the most prosperous form of poetry in the Tang Dynasty. There are five laws and seven quatrains. It is called metrical because there are strict requirements for the rhyme of tone rhythm format.
Classical poetry refers to the form of poetry before the Tang Dynasty, not limited to rhythm and format. Start with songs, songs and lines, which can be long or short, and can be mixed with four words, five words, six words and seven words.
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Classification of ancient poems
Classification by content
It can be divided into narrative poems, lyric poems, farewell poems, frontier poems, pastoral poems, nostalgic poems (epics), object-chanting poems, mourning poems, allegorical poems and modern poems.
1, nostalgic poem
Generally, I miss people and things in ancient times. Poetry about history often distorts historical facts and reality, or regrets personal experience or criticizes social reality. For example, Su Shi's "Niannujiao Chibi Nostalgia" expresses his personal experience, the contradiction between ideal and reality, and has achieved nothing for more than half a year. Xin Qiji's Ode to Yule, Jingkou Gu Beiting and Nostalgia expressed his dissatisfaction with the imperial court's drag out an ignoble existence and attacked the social reality.
There are also poems about history, which only reflect and evaluate history calmly and rationally, or just describe it objectively. The poet's own experience is not among them, and the poet's feelings are just the sound outside the painting. For example, Liu Yuxi's "Wu Yi Xiang" expresses the poet's sense of historical vicissitudes by comparing the past and the present.
2. Poetry
Characteristics of object-chanting poems: the content takes a certain object as the description object, and describes it by grasping some of its characteristics. Ideologically, it is often to express one's wishes. From things to people, from reality to nothingness, write spiritual character. Commonly used metaphor, symbol, personification and contrast.
3. Landscape pastoral poetry
Xie Lingyun created landscape poetry, and Tao Yuanming created pastoral poetry in the Eastern Jin Dynasty. In the Tang Dynasty, the school of landscape pastoral poetry represented by Wang Wei and Meng Haoran appeared. Landscape pastoral poetry is good at describing natural scenery, pastoral scenery and comfortable seclusion life, with meaningful and beautiful poetic landscape, quiet and elegant style and clear and elegant language.
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