Types of humorous poetry

Poetry is a unique literary form, and its unique essential feature - structural form, is the fundamental feature that distinguishes poetry from other literary genres. Chinese poetry can be roughly divided into classical poetry and modern poetry in terms of structure and form. Classical poetry includes ancient poetry, metrical poetry, etc., while modern poetry is mostly new poetry in vernacular. Humorous poetry is divided into poems, and can also be roughly divided into classical humorous poetry, modern vernacular new poetry and humorous poetry in terms of structure and form. If we also consider the situation of adapting the past to the present, there is also a mix of classical and modern humorous poetry.

1. Classical humorous poetry

For example, it is said that Su Shi and Su Xiaomei wrote poems to make each other laugh.

Su Xiaomei had a big forehead and deep eye sockets, so Su Dongpo wrote a poem to tease her:

Three or five steps before leaving the hall, the forehead first comes to the painting hall.

The tears I wiped away several times were bottomless, and two springs flowed away.

Su Dongpo had a long face and a beard that covered his mouth. Su Xiaomei responded with a poem:

A drop of lovesickness tears last year did not flow to the gills today.

I can't find a place to look for several times, and the luxuriant and fragrant grass covers the cave sky.

2. Modern humorous poetry

For example, "Chasing the Sun" (Tan Xiao)

I love the light

Afraid of the sun The western mountain sets and then passes away

I chase endlessly

Towards the west

Chasing the sun

I don’t know

The earth revolves around the sun

I don’t know either

The earth is round

I have never seen it with my own eyes

< p>The earth is round

I have only seen

the infinitely straight horizon

in the distant horizon

(I

I have never seen it with my own eyes

The earth is round)

3. Classical and modern mixed humorous poetry

Classical and modern mixed humorous poetry , is a poem in which modern people cleverly mix classical poetry with modern poetry or modern life scenes, or modify individual words and sentences of classical poetry to give the poetry a sense of humor.

For example, "Before and After Marriage" (the content is taken from the Internet, the title is determined by this article, different Internet reprints have different names, the author is unknown)

Before Marriage——

Woman: Have you ever had a girlfriend?

Man: Ten years of life and death are so uncertain that you will never forget them without thinking about them.

Female: Dead? How did you die?

Male: There are no mountains, no tombs, no rivers, thunders in winter and rain and snow in summer.

Female: Oh, it’s a natural disaster. Then how did you get here all these years?

Male: His face is dusty and smoky, and his hands are gray and black.

Female; Alas, it’s not easy. So what was your first feeling when you saw me?

Male: Suddenly a spring breeze came overnight, and thousands of pear trees bloomed.

Female: (blushing) How good is it?

Male: What is conveyed by dross is not pure beauty, but what is hard to describe is the spirit.

Female: Flatterer - do you have ideals?

Male: He is so young and ambitious, yet he dares to laugh at Huang Chao for not being a husband.

Female: What do you think of love?

Male: Only in this mountain, where is the depth of the clouds?

Female: Do you like reading?

Male: There are twelve volumes of military books, and each volume has my father’s name!

Female: This is too much to brag about. Right? You are so talented, why are you still single?

Male: My sister-in-law is unmarried, and she knows how miserable she is.

Female: (laughing) If, I mean if, I agree to marry you, how are you going to treat me?

Male: A heart of ice is in a jade pot!

Female: Do you promise that you will not be tempted by other women?

Male: I can't afford trouble, I have a heart as old as a well.

Female: I’ll believe you for now, but I’m planning to go to the United States to study. Can you wait for me?

Male: It’s been a long time since I’ve been here, and it should be a good time and beautiful scenery.

Female: But...

Male: Don't lean on the railing when you are alone, the world is unlimited, it is easy to say goodbye but hard to see!

Female: But...

Male: When I look at my husband, Jiang Youyou turns into stone and never looks back!

Female: Okay, okay, I’m afraid of you...

After marriage— —

Female: After being married for so long, do you still miss your original girlfriend?

Male: Once upon a time, it was difficult to make a difference, except for Wushan.

Female: Then why did you marry me back then?

Male: I didn’t realize I was a guest in my dream, and I was just having fun for a while.

Female: That’s too much. We are a couple after all.

Male: Husband and wife are originally birds of the same forest, and they fly separately when disaster strikes.

Female: What do you think of our marriage?

Male: When I woke up, I looked at Chu Jin, but my dream was still chilling!

Female: Is it that miserable? Are you talking about your first impression of me...

Male: Beautiful women fill the spring palace like flowers, with only partridges flying around.

Female: Isn’t that what you said? Could it be that you actually...

Male: I couldn’t boast that I was so dirty in the past, but now I have no limits to my dissolute thoughts.

Female: My friends have always written to me and told me that I didn’t believe it, but I didn’t expect it to be true!

Male: It’s easy to see what’s on paper but I don’t know how important it is. Go ahead.

Female: Where have your original ideals gone?

Male: Let’s replace the superficial fame with singing in a low voice.

Female: (with tears in her eyes) You, didn’t you promise a heart of ice?

Male: I can’t bear to see this thing, burn it to ashes.

Female: Aren’t you afraid of being laughed at by your relatives and friends, and being reviled by future generations?

Male: I would rather die holding a fragrant branch than blow it down in the north wind.

Female: Do I disagree with the breakup?

Male: Even if we break up, we are still brothers, so why do we need to be close to each other?

Female: Okay, that’s awesome...

Classical and modern mashup of humorous poetry is a unique form of humorous poetry. The most common one is not the mashup of "Before and After Marriage" because It is really difficult. The most common ones are poems that modify individual words of the classics as mentioned above.

There are few excellent poems that modify ancient classic words, and most of them are funny poems. Because the original poem is a classic, the revised poem often has little independent humor of its own, but can be very funny. Note that a funny look at a classic is often a kind of humor in life from a global perspective.

For example, "Jianjia" (excerpted from the Internet, author unknown)

Jianjia is green, and the white dew is like frost.

The so-called beauty is on the Internet.

When I saw him in excitement, his face was fat and long.

When you are in a happy meeting, your waist is like a big water tank.

Original text, "Jianjia" ("Book of Songs·Guofeng·Qinfeng")

Jianjia is green, and the white dew is frost. The so-called beauty is on the water side.

If you follow it back, the road will be long and blocked. Traveling back from it, Wan is in the middle of the water.

Jianjia is miserable, and the white dew is still there. The so-called beauty is on the water.

Retrospect and follow it, but the road is blocked and you can advance. If you go back and swim from it, you will feel like you are swimming in the water.

The jianjia is collected, and the white dew has not stopped. The so-called beauty is in the river of water.

Looking back, the road is blocked and to the right. If you go back and swim from it, you will be swimming in the water.

Another example, "Bu Shuanzi" (taken from the Internet, the author is unknown)

I live in Beijing Institute of Technology, and she lives in Beijing Institute of Technology.

We finally met after chatting online every day, and we finally met a ghost...

Original word, "Businessman" (Li Zhiyi)

I live at the head of the Yangtze River , you live at the end of the Yangtze River.

I miss you every day without seeing you, and drink water from the Yangtze River.

When will this water stop, and when will this hatred end?

I only hope that your heart will be like mine, and I will live up to my love for you.

The above two rewritten poems were taken from the Internet, and may have been partly written by students from Beijing Institute of Technology, so there is some talk of "Beijing Institute of Technology" and "Beijing Institute of Technology".

The ancients also did this by mixing and matching classics. The ancients would also mix and match the artistic works of their predecessors with their lives to "use the past for the present". Changing land use from the past to the present is a manifestation of human creativity and a good thing for the development of human culture.

Classical poetry and modern life are mixed and matched. If the mix is ??done properly, it can achieve a perfect match; if the mix is ??not done well, it will be silenced into the long river of history. As long as it does not constitute blasphemy, people today do not need to care at all.

Classification by humor is a relatively complex issue, and different categories can be distinguished from different perspectives.

1. Divided by aftertaste type and interesting type

Some humorous poems will make people have aftertaste after reading them, and some people will just find them interesting and interesting after reading them, but they will not Aftertaste. According to whether they are memorable or not, humorous poems can be divided into two categories: memorable and interesting.

(1) Reminiscence-type humorous poems

For example, "To Mother" (Tan Xiao)

When I came to this world

< p>My eyes definitely didn’t open at once

How did you look at me

I didn’t see it

When I opened my mouth

When you were crying for milk

Did you rush to feed me milk

in a hurry

I don’t remember

p>

But I think it will be

Day after day

I am growing up

You have watched me grow from a baby

Became a teenager

And then until today

That’s for sure

I will never forget it

The most The words that are often said about you

What do you think

is it?

Simple, couldn’t be simpler

That’s it

Mom...Mom...Mom...

Not just every time I feel wronged

Even now

< p>I will also do many things that have nothing to do with you

Suddenly shout a few times

Oh my god...oh my god...

< p>Such or similar words about you

In fact, if you calm down

Think about it carefully

Which of my things will tell you

p>

It really doesn’t have the slightest connection

Not really

If this poem is recited on Mother’s Day or Mother’s birthday, many people will burst into laughter, but in the end , everyone will be moved again, because there is a very profound aftertaste in the poem. Statistics show that 62% of people who read this poem both laughed and were moved (laughter and tears occurred).

As for the problem of calling "Mom", we might as well think carefully: Why do we call "Mom...Mom..." and "Mom..." when encountering an emergency or in some special situations? What about these words? Because, subconsciously, we equate our mother with our last pillar, with safety and problem solving. When we were young, we had the reality that our mother was our support and gave us security. Therefore, the view that mother is our support and security was deeply rooted in our subconscious.

(2) Interesting and humorous poems

For example, "Glasses" (Tan Xiao)

She looks really good with a pair of glasses

Bringing out the smart nose and soft face

And those eyes are even more beautiful

She is so beautiful that attracted me

I looked carefully Look carefully

Hey, those glasses of hers

They are purely decorative

It turns out there are no lenses

《Glasses "" describes an interesting thing in life. For most people, there is not much to recall, but the description of life phenomena is full of humor, so it is an interesting and humorous poem.

Note that there is a difference between interesting humorous poetry and interesting poetry. For example, pagoda poems, word puzzle poems, acrostic poems, overlapping poems and other poems, the arrangement of words is very interesting, but they cannot be simply regarded as humorous poems. Many of them are only interesting poems and not humorous.

2. Divide by situation and independence

Some humorous poems must be humorous in a specific situation, and some poems may not necessarily produce humor independently in a specific situation. According to whether a specific situation is required and whether humor can be produced independently, humorous poetry can be divided into situational humor poetry and independent humor poetry.

(1) Situational humor poetry

For example, most people born in the 1960s know this poem and have laughed at it:

< p>There was once a sincere love in front of me

I did not cherish it

When I lost it

I regretted it

The most painful thing in the world is this

......

If God could give me another chance

I would love that woman The child says three words

I-love-you

......

If you have to add a time limit to this love

I hope it is

——Ten Thousand Years

Situational humor poems are poems that can produce humorous effects due to specific situations. These poems are separated from the specific situation, or are not understood by people, or they no longer have a sense of humor.

The above-mentioned poems will obviously not make people laugh if they exist independently, and they are not humorous. However, because they appear in the wonderful situation of "Journey to the West", they make people laugh and become humorous.

By the way, the above poem has been spread by many people, but at that time most people did not know that it was poetry because there were no line breaks when they saw this passage, and some people had a different concept of poetry. Tradition.

The rhymes (rhyming words) of this poem are:

1. qian qian, limit xian, nian nian;

2. cherish xi, And ji, you ni;

3. This ci, the word zi.

Situational humor poems are relatively more common in classical poetry. If we don’t know the context of the poetry at that time, for today’s people, the humor of many classical Chinese poems will be reduced or even disappear.

(2) Independent humorous poems

For example, "The Hens in the Chicken Farm" (Tan Xiao)

They

have Houses in tracts

with bright lights

They

eat highly processed food

live in hygienic rooms Never low-end

They

How pitiful they are

As adults

They have to ovulate all the time

But for the rest of my life

I will never see the appearance of a rooster

Independent humorous poems are poems that do not require a specific situation to produce humorous effects.

"The Hen in the Chicken Farm" does not require a specific situation. The poem is written on paper, and most modern people can understand it, laugh and find it humorous.

It should be noted that context and independence are relative. The situation can be a specific small situation, such as the plot situation of "Journey to the West"; it can also be a large situation, such as historical, cultural, regional and other backgrounds. The situation mentioned here only refers to a specific small situation. Generally speaking, there is no need to list the big situation as a special situation. All poetry and humor, and even most literary and artistic works, inevitably show their value in the big situation.

3. Classify by color

Many people like to classify humor by color, and humorous poems can naturally be classified by color. According to color, there are black humor poems, white humor poems, yellow humor poems and other poems.

(1) Black humor poetry

For example, "The Life of a Pig" (Tan Xiao)

No need to run around for food

No need Participate in work

As long as

continue to grow

After a certain age

achieve the first and last goals in life

——Being eaten by humans

This

is the life of a pig

Don’t think it is very miserable

More Don't feel extremely sad

Those chickens

The vast majority of children

live their entire lives

as nothing more than eggs in eggshells Liquid

The world

It is impossible to see with eyes

Black humor is humor that expresses helplessness, contradiction, heaviness, etc. in the form of comedy. Black can easily give people a sense of heaviness. "The Life of a Pig" After reading the title and reading the first few sentences, some people will laugh. However, after reading the complete poem, statistics show that 29% of people feel very complicated and 36% feel heavy. The poem is black humor. poetry. The poem was originally called "Life". If the word "pig" was not added, the humor would be much less humorous.

By the way, there is a flaw in the last paragraph of this poem. Most eggs do not grow from fertilized eggs, and most of them cannot hatch into chickens.

(2) White humorous poems

For example, "Tooth - it hurts!" 》(Tan Xiao)

My tooth has been hurting for a few days

I had to go see you

The gums are swollen

The doctor looked at it and said

Need to disinfect

Rinse it with hydrogen peroxide

I said

Okay

Just rinse it

......

The nurse filled the syringe with the medicine

The doctor took it in his hand

Caught my mouth with one hand

p>

Insert the needle into the gum with the other hand

......

Wow, it hurts

Trying hard

< p>......

The doctor said

Look

It's seeping through here

It's coming all the way

< p>The bottom is already transparent

......

Wow, my God

It will hurt if you don’t tell me

Tell me again

It hurts so much that tears are no longer in my eyes

......

Okay

The doctor gave the order

Finally

It’s all over

The needle is pulled out and no longer poked inside

It is estimated that

a small tube of hydrogen peroxide has been removed from the root of the tooth

Rush to the root of the tooth

Forcibly oxidize and burn the bacteria and viruses

...

After I got up

I didn't close my mouth for a while

It’s not a smile

It’s not moving

......

The doctor said

Originally, I wanted to give it to you One more tube

I didn’t expect you to be in such pain

Note: Hydrogen peroxide is commonly known as hydrogen peroxide. It is divided into three types: medical, military and industrial. Medical hydrogen peroxide is used for daily disinfection. Medical hydrogen peroxide can kill intestinal pathogenic bacteria and pyogenes, and is generally used for surface disinfection of objects. Hydrogen peroxide has an oxidizing effect. The concentration of medical hydrogen peroxide is equal to or lower than 3%. If it is wiped onto the wound surface, there will be a burning sensation.

White humor refers to humor that makes people laugh and feel scary. "Tooth--it hurts!" "Some readers laughed after reading it, but at the same time they were a little shuddered. Therefore, it can be classified as a white humor poem.

(3) Pink humorous poems

For example, "First Love" (Girl of the Wei Family)

My first love was in the ignorant flower season,

Looked sideways and timidly at the young man beside him.

The loud sound of reading ignored me,

I never confessed the throbbing of my heart.

Throwing the braid back,

I felt happy and apologized,

I was elated and excited for a few days...

My first love is so simple.

Only when I grew up did I realize that the sound of reading the book was because of me.

Pink humor mostly refers to humor that expresses pure and sweet love. "First Love" tells the story of a girl's first love, which is pure and full of beautiful regrets. When people read the last regretful part, they often smile knowingly, and then they think of their first love and enter into aftertaste and memories. The poem is a pink humor poem.

(4) Yellow humor poems

Yellow humor refers to yellow that has a sense of humor. Poetry is an elegant art in the eyes of many people. Once pornographic content is added and taboos are broken, as long as the writing is not too crude, it may suddenly have a sense of humor and become a special kind of humorous poetry - pornographic humor poetry.

Note that pornographic poems, no matter how humorous they are, usually have a low tone because of their yellow color. In modern poetry, many poems written by the Lower Body School are pornographic poems, some of which will make people laugh when read, and are quite humorous.

4. Divide by laugh points

Punch points refer to the key points of laughter in humor, jokes, etc. Humorous poems are divided according to their laugh points. In terms of quantity, they can be divided into single laugh point poems and multiple laugh point poems. In terms of position, they can be divided into front laugh point poems, post laugh point poems, middle laugh point poems, and multiple laugh point poems. Laughing poems, etc.

(1) Poems with single laugh points

For example, "It's still early for them to grow old" (Tan Xiao)

A flower bloomed yesterday,

The flowers are gone today,

Life has its end,

Opportunities are getting fewer and fewer.

The sun appears every day,

the lunar moon is good,

although the sun and the moon shine sometimes,

they are not old.

It’s still too early for me to be old

——I’m so angry!

Note: Taiyin is the moon.

The above-mentioned poem will not make people laugh when reading the first verses. Only when reading the last sentence will it make people laugh. It has only one laugh point and is a single-laugh point humorous poem.

(2) More humorous poems

For example, "What you eat makes you better" (Tan Xiao)

I bought some meat that I have never eaten before Eat

Have a taste

Did you eat this little meat?

I guess there are some ventricles and some atria

Of course

< p>It once grew on pigs

There is a view in traditional medicine that

What you eat is what you eat

So

We eat It smells particularly good

Because

I have been overworked and injured recently

Just in time

to replenish it

I That's the heart of a fragile person

That's right

Based on past experience

I have also eaten some chicken wings from time to time

How many times has it happened

But it never grew

——Wings

There are at least two parts of the above poem that readers will laugh at. One is knowing how to eat. One's heart is growing on a pig's body, and the other is about eating chicken wings, which is a poem that makes people laugh more.

(3) Humorous poems with front laugh points

The previous article "The Life of a Pig" is a humorous poem with front laugh points. Some readers of "The Life of a Pig" will want to laugh when they read the title, but many will stop smiling when they read the middle or even the end of the poem.

This may be the reason why it is more difficult to create humorous poems with pre-laughing points. There are relatively few such poems.

(4) Humorous poems with a post-laugh point

The above-mentioned "Well Water on the Head", "It's Too Soon for Me to Be Old", "Glasses", etc. are all humorous poems with a post-laugh point , the punchline is at the end, readers will laugh only when they read the poem to the end. There are many such poems, and they are the majority of humorous poems.

Why do most of the jokes come at the end of humorous poems? This is determined by humor. Humorous laughter often requires a foreshadowing process.

(5) Humorous poems with a middle laugh point

Humorous poems usually have a laugh point in the middle as well as before and after. Therefore, some humorous poems are humorous poems with a middle laugh point. . The aforementioned "To Mother" is a poem with a middle point of laughter. There is no laughter at the beginning and end of the poem, and readers will not laugh. However, in the middle part, "Mom...Mom...Mom...", "Oh my god...oh my god...", people will laugh after reading it.

(6) Humorous poems with multiple laugh points

Many poems, such as the above-mentioned "What to Eat to Replenish You", "To Mother", etc., not only have one laugh point, but several There are laugh points, even before and after, and they are all humorous poems with multiple laugh points.

5. Other humorous poems

There are many ways to classify humorous poems. They can also be classified according to location, type of thing, object, aftertaste characteristics, etc... …

According to location, it can be divided into workplace humor poetry, family humor poetry, travel humor poetry, etc.;

According to the type of things, it can be divided into political humor poetry and life humor poetry. , work humor poems, etc.;

According to the object, it can be divided into self-deprecating humor poems, satirical humor poems, etc.;

According to the aftertaste characteristics, it can be divided into no aftertaste humor poems , shallow aftertaste humor poetry, deep aftertaste humor poetry, quick aftertaste humor poetry, slow aftertaste humor poetry, etc.;

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