Modern Poetry Writing Skills and Techniques

No matter in school or in society, everyone has been exposed to poetry, which has the characteristics of refinement, concentration, distinct rhythm and rich rhythm. What are the widely used poems? The following is my collection of modern poetry writing skills and techniques, welcome to learn and refer to, I hope to help you.

I. Use of Language and Artistic Conception

Modern poetry has three obvious and concrete elements, which are: language, artistic conception and rhythm. This shows how important language and artistic conception are to a modern poem. If we want to appreciate the quality of a modern poem, these two factors are the first, essential and can't be ignored.

As we all know, language comes from life, but the language used in any genre of articles is not the language of life. "Art comes from life and is higher than life", in fact, this means that the language of any literary genre comes from life, but it is also "necessarily higher than life."

As a poetic literary genre, it plays a more important role and charm in language. In a modern poem, if the language is elegant and unique, there must be some chewing and interest; And if the language is not used properly, it will destroy the atmosphere and style of the whole work. As for artistic conception, I personally think it is something that can render works and atmosphere. It can be an open picture, from far to near, or from near to far, or it can be a kind of feeling, philosophical thinking and Zen. In other words, artistic conception can be divided into tangible and intangible categories, and tangible objects and pictures are tangible artistic conception; There is also an artistic conception that is invisible, because there is no such picture or object, and this artistic conception only exists as an idea or sentiment.

Below, we will appreciate the charm of language and artistic conception through specific works.

First, let's read the poem Sparrow by the poet He three old ladies.

sparrow

The heavy snow fell under the mountain.

The house curled up in the snow.

There is smoke on the roof.

Sparrows are dressed as

autumn leave

Fall from a branch

All of a sudden,

Go back to the tree

In just a few words, the poet opened a beautiful picture for us with elegant language and artistic conception. In these three simple poems, we can appreciate a beautiful artistic conception, which is tangible, such as "white snow flowers, houses, snow, kitchen smoke", and several simple images, which fluctuate in front of readers inadvertently, have actually created a particularly elegant artistic conception and atmosphere. And "falling from the branch/returning to the tree instantly" is actually a tangible and intangible artistic conception. In this intangible artistic conception, we see not only sparrows, leaves and trees, but also a broad vision and thoughts, with a lot of feelings and thoughts. Animals living and working optimistically in the cold is actually an encouragement and gratitude to human beings.

"Sparrows dress up as/autumn leaves/fall from branches/return to trees in an instant", and you can also appreciate the elegance of the poet's sentences and narrative here. "Sparrow Dressing/Autumn Leaves" doesn't have much decoration, but it brings readers extremely clean and clear, and the tranquility of "falling from the branches/returning to the trees instantly". Short poems have also achieved great success. Here, we fully realize the great charm that language and artistic conception bring to works and readers.

Second, grasp the rhythm and rhythm.

Anyone who has been exposed to literature knows the meaning of rhythm. In classical poetry, rhythm plays a very important role. If there is no rhythm, or the rhythm is incomplete, then classical poetry cannot be called poetry, and even the best poetry will lose its value.

After the New Culture Movement, in the early modern poetry, the poet grasped the rhythm very carefully and meticulously. In early modern poetry, we can often read good works with ingenious rhythm and rhythm. These good works usually give us the feeling that reading is brisk, beautiful, cadence, or capable, atmospheric, mellow and long-lasting. These excellent works of rhythm and rhythm are also excellent works of recitation.

Then let's come back with the flavor of rhythm and rhythm to appreciate the excellent works of ancient philosophers and modern poets.

Farewell to Cambridge (excerpt)

Author; Xu zhimo

I walked gently.

When I came softly

I waved my hand gently.

Farewell to the western clouds

Golden willow by the river.

Is the bride in the sunset?

Erotic shadows in the waves

Ripple in my heart

Green grass on soft mud

Oily, swaying at the bottom of the water

In Joubo, He Kang.

I would like to be an aquatic plant.

A pool in the shade of elm trees

Not a clear spring, but a rainbow in the sky.

Crushed by floating algae

Precipitate a rainbow-like dream

The whole poem consists of seven sections, four lines in each section, and two or three meals in each line. Eclectic, rigorous statutes, rhyming with two or four rhymes, cadence and catchy. Beautiful rhythm and rhyme under the control of the author, the narrative started by the poet is like a beautiful ripple in a lake, cool and thorough, and gradually swings open in front of readers. Gently back, it will taste better. The beautiful and quiet images that slowly open are "clouds, golden willows, sunset, bride, …" "Walk gently, come gently", and the green picture in spring catches the reader's eye, "I would like to be a water plant in the gentle waves of Hekang River", … It is really warm and exciting, comfortable and light, gentle and wonderful.

This is the idea of many poets. Modern poetry is not only a poem, but also a beautiful song. Looking at the poet's works and tasting his perfect rhythm and artistic conception, we know how charming and intoxicating modern poetry is.

Today, decades later, modern poetry has climbed countless steps. Today's modern poetry is completely free and full of individuality. They are atmospheric, unrestrained, introverted, open and carefree. In other words, in today's modern poetry expression, many poets may have abandoned the rhythm that poetry should have, but the rhythm is still essential. In a sense, rhythm actually represents a kind of momentum of the work, which can also be said to be a style. If the rhythm is mastered skillfully, it will become a poet's personality, and various styles may be born from it, forming a hundred schools of thought.

Third, fresh and clever methods.

As we all know, poetry is composed of every detail sentence. Fresh and smart here refers to the expression and structure of sentences. There are many ways to form a sentence. In terms of expression, most individuals like to organize their language with their usual methods and personalities, including procrastination, conciseness, freshness and elegance, and triviality and verbosity. I think the difference in the level and style of poetry first comes from the difference in one's ability to organize language. Freshness is actually just a feeling, a combination of freshness and liveliness. If the combination of a sentence or the expression of a poem can do this, and give readers a refreshing and vivid silence, how can it not make readers like and move?

And agility means that the expression contains an invisible power and sense of movement, which makes old photos come alive, makes still images jump, makes dim colors bright, and even makes dead objects reborn again! This shows how great the role of agility is, and it can also be seen that agile "movement" is actually a silent force. Let's analyze it in detail with poetry.

Winter sun

They climbed over walls and safety nets.

Turn over the closed glass and screen window.

Jump down gently

Wandering around the room

What a lively group of fish!

They are dressed in gold.

They are swimming in the cold air.

They are swimming on the white floor.

I watched quietly.

It seems that the cold time is back.

It seems that those happy fish are swimming around in my warm heart. In this exquisite and short poem, we can feel the incomparable warmth and beautiful feeling brought by the literary genre of poetry, and deep poetry runs through it. The biggest feature of this poem is freshness and agility, and there is also a strong sense of picture. In the first section, "They climb over the wall, guard against theft/climb over the closed glass, screen window/gently jump off/wander around the room", here we see the author's fresh language, which is not trivial and complicated, and a series of verbs such as "climbing over the wall", "jumping off" and "wandering" are just right, from far to near, leading the reader's sight and sense, which is refreshing.

In the second quarter, there is a sense of beauty and movement. The sunshine in winter here is "weakened" into groups of lively fish. "They are dressed in gold/they are swimming in the cold air/they are swimming on the white floor." The sunshine is quiet, even with a sense of stillness. The author uses clever metaphors and narratives to make quiet things swim and quiet pictures jump, so he has to.

In the third section, the author skillfully sublimated the sense of movement, continued to stretch the sense of movement of the picture, and jumped up gently with clever sentences. "I watched quietly/as if the cold time was reviving/as if those happy fish were swimming in my warm heart." Hehe, the sun shone on everything and everyone's heart. "As if those happy fish were swimming in my warm heart," it was so gentle and delicate. How could this situation not help people?

Four. Anthropomorphic method

When it comes to personification, we all know what is going on, and personification in poetry is not a simple metaphor. If so, then poetry will lose its original poetry, sense of language and charm.

Personification in poetry refers to the portrayal of the theme or object image to be expressed, or the use of certain personality characteristics of characters to chant things. If properly expressed, it can even make the virtual person and the real thing * * * become an organic whole, and the effect is naturally unparalleled by borrowing people to praise things and compare things with people.

Let's look at the magical function of personification.

moonlight

Author: He three old ladies

You came down from the back hill in a skirt.

Leaves are floating in the evening breeze.

The moonlight shone on the wooden door.

Hehe, reading He three old ladies's works will always bring more emotion and joy. In these three short sentences, the author opened countless beautiful images simply and neatly with a few numbers. Although short, it is full of fragrance and endless meaning. "You came down from the back hill in a skirt", obviously, this is anthropomorphic, because the moon is not a person, and it will not wear a beautiful skirt belonging to a woman.

Quiet night. The leaves are trembling at the full moon. The moonlight fell on the wooden door. The poet standing at night saw the bright moon hanging in the sky and the faint yellow moonlight slowly falling. The beautiful moon is not an object without temperature and emotion, but a gentle and elegant woman. You came down from the back hill in a skirt. What kind of woman is so elegant and indifferent? It must be Wendell's love. It must be the most beautiful.

Therefore, in the poet's pen, the moon is personified as an extremely gentle and elegant woman with unspeakable beauty and tranquility; At the same time, the poet compared people with things at the moment when he borrowed people to praise things, that is to say, he compared moonlight to women and sublimated women to the infinite realm of moonlight. Here, poets silently praise women all over the world. A woman as bright and pure as moonlight is the greatest sublimation of art.

Five, sketch method

Speaking of sketching, we all know what is going on. It is to draw an object or portrait on white paper with a pencil, or it can be a rough thinking. Then, how to draw with a pen when poetry is combined with language?

Hehe, we don't need to borrow pencils to write poems. Sometimes, language is the best pencil. In our hands, using artistic conception and rhythm, we can draw more beautiful pictures than pencils and white paper. Moreover, these pictures are not only beautiful, rough, delicate, or hazy, but also have incomparable softness, sensibility, beautiful artistic conception, poetic and open philosophy, full of fragrance and long aftertaste.

Next, let's feel the charm of sketch in poetry.

late autumn

Vast land

The lake ran aground. Grass close to yellow

Shrub bleak

Setaria is still waiting for it.

The cool wind is coming.

Those dark yellow wild chrysanthemums

After dancing

Have a slight chill

Here, the author obviously uses the sketching and painting skills with poetic language, which opens a picture of late autumn well. Here, we not only see a picture of autumn colors in Shan Ye, but also read the beauty and poetry of everything in these pictures. "The vast land/lake ran aground. The yellow grass at hand seems to be a painting in front of us, with the vast earth as the background and a far and large field of vision. Then we see the scenery in the background "the lake is stranded, near the yellow grass", or the things and scenes in the background. Slowly, the picture is getting closer and closer: "The bush is bleak/the green grass is still waiting", so we see the low "bush", which is the picture opened by the author in the first section. In this painting, we also appreciate many true colors of nature: stranded lakes, yellow grasslands, bleak shrubs, and the waiting of foxtail. In painting, the author has to spend a lot of time and paint to make all kinds of colors, while in poetry sketch, most of the senses of the picture can be achieved in just a few words, so he has to praise the wonder of the words again.

In the second quarter, we can see the sublimation of the sense of picture, the sublimation of thought and art. The original author wants to express not only a picture of late autumn, but also a deeper and more unyielding praise to nature and plants. "Cool breeze/those dark yellow wild chrysanthemums/after dancing/trembling gently" and "those dark yellow wild chrysanthemums" should be the main body in the picture. After describing many dim colors, the author finally pointed to a "deep yellow delicacy". In late autumn, everything withered and the river ran aground. Only the strong and beautiful wild chrysanthemum stands proudly in the cold environment. Even if the cool breeze blows, the arrogant wild chrysanthemum just "shakes slightly after dancing." If a person, no matter how many difficulties and setbacks he encounters, can stand proudly like this nameless wild chrysanthemum, ignoring all the cold wind and rain, what a splendid scenery of life!

Six, parallelism method

I think this is a very simple writing technique. We often use this skill in our life. So the structure and meaning of parallelism will not be explained. Let's talk about the function of parallelism in poetry and the strength and depth of parallelism in poetry language.

As we all know, a good poem is not only poetic in language and soothing and fresh in expression, but also needs some thinking and efforts. In the dark ages, powerful literary works are also aimed at the present situation and awaken a kind of light and conscience. For example, Mr. Lu Xun once left a powerful famous sentence "Better take your time than drag out an ignoble existence", which awakened thousands of people in Qian Qian, Qian Qian.

In peacetime, we naturally don't need to call for light, but we can all praise and praise those absolutely beautiful, kind, generous and simple people or things and plants in Qian Qian's life. Even a drop of water, a blade of grass and a ray of golden sunshine all contain incomparable wisdom and gratitude, which is totally worthy of our praise. On expressive power, parallelism is an extremely powerful way.

Let's appreciate the charm of parallelism through Haizi's poems.

hometown

Author: Haizi

Write poems for the fire in the dark.

Write poems for sheep on the grassland.

Write poems for the south wind in the north wind

Write a poem for you in my thoughts.

This short poem named "Hometown" presents readers with only four short sentences and four parallelism. However, it brings readers unusual strength and feelings. The author uses the parallelism from far to near, from vague to clear, from abstract to subtle, from weak to strong, and greatly opens up his warm yearning for his hometown with simple language. At the same time, he used parallelism to describe and enthusiastically praise the beautiful hometown he missed. In addition, he also used parallelism to express the poet's incomparable yearning for a better home and life in the future.

"Writing poems for the fire in the dark/writing poems for the sheep on the grassland" are two simple comparisons, but they are not lost in atmosphere and massiness. "Writing poems for the fire in the dark" expresses a kind of ideological and emotional enthusiasm. There was a flame lurking in the darkness, but it can burn the night at any time, drive away the darkness and cold, and bring people great desire and hope. This is the beginning of this poem. Look at the analysis and you will know how enthusiastic and high-profile the author is. This leads the reader to the next level, "writing poems for sheep on the grassland". There is a lot of unintentional tenderness in the poet's narration from high to gentle and affectionate. In the poet's expression, "grassland" is actually a metaphor for hometown, and "sheep" is actually every wanderer who leaves his hometown. Or it also contains an intangible artistic conception "hometown". Although the poet has left his hometown, the beautiful hometown is everywhere in the poet's thought and ideology. At the same time, the poet wants to express his yearning and sustenance for a better life and his incomparable fantasy for a better home. "Writing poems for the sheep on the grassland", in fact, the poet wants to praise the great happiness and joy of the sheep who own the grassland. Without the grassland, how lonely and lost the sheep will be, and how helpless and missing the lonely wanderers who leave their hometown will be?

"Write a poem for the south wind in the north wind/write a poem for you in my thoughts", which seems to lighten the momentum, but gradually ends the whole poem in an incomparable yearning and tenderness. "Writing poems for the south wind in the north wind" seems to be an impossible reverse thinking, but after the first two comparisons, it does not reduce the yearning for hometown or the intensity of yearning, but uses another kind of confession to increase the narrative intensity. The "north wind" here can be compared to the poet's distant residence, while the "south wind" is the poet's distant "hometown". Against the wind, there are not only the status quo of helpless distance, but also. And the passion for hometown that has never diminished or weakened, including the incomparable yearning for the future home and a better life-hometown, a poet who is far away from home, looks forward to you with incomparable tenderness in deep attachment and "writes poems for you in thoughts"!

Seven, analogy method

Simply put, metaphor is metaphor, using one thing to compare another. However, metaphor is a magical language phenomenon, which can often touch readers' heartstrings and lead them to produce unexpected effects. There are three kinds of metaphors: intangible metaphor, tangible metaphor and metaphor combining tangible and intangible.

As we all know, a good poem must have a certain connotation and depth, and metaphor is one of the expressions that can well open the depth and connotation in poetry genre.

In the last appreciation work "Haizi's Hometown", we actually appreciated the charm of metaphor, so let's appreciate the function of metaphor through Thomas's poem "Country".

rural areas

By R.S. Thomas

Not to mention the streets, there are too few houses,

There is only one way.

From the only hotel to the only store,

Don't go forward, disappear at the top of the mountain,

The mountain is not high, eroding it.

Is a green wave accumulated over the years,

The grass has been growing and getting closer.

The last stronghold of the past period of time.

Things that rarely happen; A black dog

It is even to bite fleas in the sun.

Historical events. There are girls.

Walking from door to door, her speed

This dreary day has more than two dimensions.

Stop, village, because it is around you.

Turn the whole world slowly,

Broad and meaningful, no less great.

Any concept of Plato's lonely mind.

Among many outstanding poets and poems abroad, I have always liked Thomas and his works. As one of the most tenacious, purest and most enduring lyric poets in Wales in the 20th century, he won many poetry awards and left a lot of excellent poetry works.

In the above poem, the author uses metaphors in many places. "There is a girl who walks door to door, and her speed/exceeds twice the size of this dull day." The girls here metaphorically refer to "fashion", and at the same time, invisibly metaphor becomes the concept and pronoun of beauty.

"Then stop, village, because the whole world revolves around you." Here, the poet calls the village the whole world, which drives all the people and things in the village to rotate. In this poem, the poet's metaphorical thinking is novel and strange, which drives the reader's thoughts in an instant, simple, powerful and incredible.

Eight, rhetoric moderation

"Xiu" refers to modification, and "Ci" originally meant to be a word of debate, and later it was extended to all words. "Rhetoric" refers to a kind of language activity in the process of language expression, which uses various language means to achieve better expression effect as far as possible.

As we all know, as a literary genre, poetry has incomparable delicacy and gentleness with other literary genres, so it needs to use rhetoric to realize poeticization and personalization. It is very important to master and use rhetoric skillfully. If rhetoric is not used, then poetry must not be poetry, and if rhetoric is rampant, the language of poetry must be cumbersome, procrastinating, as vulgar and boring as a woman with heavy makeup.

A few years ago, my good friend Sunset Red sent me a sentence: "It is better to write words as gods than to cut them into poems." It makes sense to think about it carefully. This shows how important the moderation of rhetoric is, and the moderate use of rhetoric is bound to be another science.

Let us feel the charm of rhetorical restraint in our works.

swan

Author: He three old ladies

They are in the mountains.

Take a walk, take a nap and clean your wings.

Escape from the dust of the world

It is still the work of He three old ladies, with a poem of * * * 2 1 word. However, it presents readers with a very beautiful picture, "They take a nap/walk in the mountains to clean their wings", which simply expresses poetic and clear thinking, and contains the quiet landscape and interest of nature. "Escape from the dust of the world", this poem also implies another potential state and realm in the human mind that the poet wants to express, that is, the state of mind, which is full of philosophical thinking and Zen thinking, which is also the deepening and sublimation of the theme. The whole poem is fresh and pleasant to read, and has a long aftertaste after reading.

The poet condensed the deep and expressive images into just 2 1 word, with almost no superfluous words, but the effect achieved and the thinking left behind were not worse than those of long works. This shows how important the moderation of rhetoric is to a good poem.

Nine, return to natural law

Almost everyone can understand the meaning of this idiom. "Back to nature" refers to returning to the original simple and authentic state. Pu, the original meaning is a stone with jade. Also refers to uncut jade. This refers to innocence.

I have been writing and reading poems for so many years. In the past two years, I have always insisted that works that are natural, sincere, simple and sung with heart are good poems. That is to say, putting aside the carving of brushwork, the floweriness of sentences and the floweriness of rhetoric, and expressing the simplest feelings with simple sentences, such a poetic work is a good work. Let's take a look at Haizi's work "Facing the sea, spring blossoms".

Facing the Sea With Spring Blossoms

Author: Haizi

From tomorrow on, I want to be a happy person;

Comb hair, chop wood and travel around the world.

From tomorrow on, I will care about food and vegetables.

Living in a house facing the sea, spring is blooming.

From tomorrow on, write to everyone I love.

Tell them my happiness,

What did the lightning of happiness tell me,

I will distribute it to each of them.

Give every river and mountain a warm name.

Stranger, I will also wish you happiness.

I wish you a bright future!

May you lovers get married!

May you enjoy happiness in this world!

I also want to face the sea, and spring blossoms.

Everyone knows that this is Haizi's masterpiece, and it is almost a masterpiece. However, after reading and savoring this work carefully, our greatest feeling is simplicity and approachability. The sentences in the whole poem are simple and sincere, which contain the poet's kindness, generosity and incomparable frankness, as well as the warmth and happiness hidden in his thoughts. Here we can also see the incomparable hope and future described by the poet. In this poem, we can't find any traces of the poet's deliberate carving or writing techniques. There is no ornate or deliberate decoration in the whole poem, and it is plain and durable.

But it touched the hearts of countless readers and became a world-famous masterpiece. Even friends who have never been exposed to poetry will feel indescribable joy and moved after reading this warm and simple narrative. "I want to face the sea, too, and spring blossoms", a famous sentence that has been passed down through the ages, expresses not only a kind of hope and expectation, but also the poet's vision for a better future, as well as his incomparable comfort and cherish for life.

"Stranger, I also wish you a bright future/a happy life." Hehe, is there anything simpler than this? Is there anything better than this? Blue sky blesses white clouds, sunshine blesses the earth, spring blesses autumn, and I deeply bless you, strange friend, "I wish you a bright future/a happy life."

Ten, skillfully handle the ending

I always think that a good poem should not only have a good beginning, a good theme, but also a happy ending. Beauty here does not mean gorgeous expression or sentence structure. Instead, relative to the center and theme expressed by the author, we use a few numbers at the end, or pull the theme to a high place, or ask questions, or leave thoughts, or answer questions skillfully, which greatly opens up the depth and space of the theme, leaving readers with thoughts or philosophies and a long aftertaste.

What's the use of skillfully handling the end of a poem? First, if a poem is ordinary in expression, the beginning or theme is dull, but the high-profile ending can sometimes make up for the shortcomings before and in the poem, make the general elegant, make the mediocrity wonderful, and even give readers a sense of twists and turns; Second, no matter how the poem begins or how it is handled in the middle, the ending is still very important. Everyone knows that "anticlimactic" is not a good image, and improper grasp of the ending will even ruin the perfect atmosphere left before the poem and become a regrettable failure; Thirdly, we all know that poetry is a literary genre with potential aesthetic style, and the treatment of ending can better promote this internal style. No matter the theme, expression and depth, I think a work that can make readers have endless aftertaste and a long aftertaste after reading must have certain charm; Fourthly, if it is a powerful poem, the language and theme are properly grasped, and the ending is skillfully handled, then the intensity and depth of the expression of the work can be opened to a greater extent, making the whole poem more convincing and conquering the readers' vision and senses.