The writing of modern poetry

Modern poetry has three most basic elements, namely language, artistic conception and rhythm. Let’s talk about language first.

Language comes from life, and art is higher than life. As a language art, poetry must be higher than life. Conciseness is important in poetry, and conciseness and conciseness are a quality of poetry. Highly concise vocabulary and vivid expressions can make your poems more concise and expressive.

Artistic conception is the soul of poetry, a state of blending of human feelings and physical scenery, and the sublimation and summary of many images in poetry. Strictly speaking, it belongs to both the artistic category and the philosophical category. The most difficult to master in poetry. Only if you improve your artistic accomplishment by reading more and watching more can you write excellent poems with beautiful artistic conception and lofty realm.

Finally, let’s talk about rhythm. The author believes that poetry is rhymed text, and this has been the case since ancient times. The so-called free verse without rhyme once made the author sneer at it and regarded it as pseudo-poetry. But in the context of modern vernacular, we don’t have to stick too much to the metrical pings, and we don’t have to put too much emphasis on strict rhymes. Today’s pings are very different from those in ancient contexts. Coupled with the role of local tone, pings are used in It has disappeared in modern poetry, but we still have to stress the rhyme. Generally, the rhyme of the even sentence and the last sentence is more commonly used. We can download Thirteen Rhymes or Sixteen Rhymes to browse and learn. As long as you understand it carefully and strive for it diligently, the rhyme is actually not difficult to suppress. When a single rhyme is difficult to press, we can change the rhyme at the right time. If it doesn't work, we can rhyme with a wide rhyme, that is, mix two similar rhymes, such as Yiqizhe and Gusu Zhe, Renchenzhe and Zhongzhong Zhe, and another example is Yanqianzhe. Zhe and Jiang Yangzhe

The application of poetry structure

Of course, in addition to the above basics, in order to write modern poetry well, we also need to master the following skills:

The application of line breaks and line breaks

Line breaks are artificial breaks in a line of poetry with coherent meaning to highlight certain parts. For example, "I love you" can be broken into "I, love you" , for another example, "cold, desolate and melancholy" can be judged as "cold, desolate and melancholy"; crossing a line is also called tixing, which is to break a line of poetry with coherent meaning into two or more lines according to the needs of rhyme or rhythm, such as "I "Love the warm sun in winter" can be translated into "I love / the warm sun in winter". Another example is "Under the sky, the moon is dim and yellow like a big round bread", which can be translated into "Under the sky, the moon is dim and yellow / like a big round bread". Regardless of whether the lines are broken or crossed, the longer sentences are split and embedded in each verse, rising and falling with the rhythm, matching the emotional rhythm of the poem, and responding to the poet with intermittent or continuous momentum. The erratic or restless literary thoughts present the prose beauty of modern poetry.

Second Disjunction and the Application of Empty Lines

The most famous work about disjointedness is undoubtedly the American poet Ezra Pound's poem "A Station of the Metro", "The Zhang Zhang who appears quietly in the crowd" The face/wet, the petals on the dark branches.” In the two isolated images, the poet removed the association, resulting in a de facto disconnect between the two. It is this disconnect that releases the imagination of the appreciators and allows them to have a broader space for thinking. Blank lines are generally used in micro-poems, often preceded by some inspiring sentences, such as "A stern judge/in the midst of a cold lawsuit/with spring blooming on his face" in Wang Yaodong's "Winter". Here there is a blank line between "a stern judge" and "in the cold proceedings / Spring bloomed on his face". Because it is a miniature poem, these three lines are coherent, but it is not difficult for readers to distinguish It is divided into two sections to read; what is used at the end is often some concluding sentences, such as Wei Shi's "The Blind Man and the Girl" "The wrinkled and deformed hands hold the tender youth/the watery eyes look into the fish eyes" Turn white/Another victory of darkness over light.” In this poem, "cracked and deformed hands" and "soft youth", "big watery eyes" and "white eyes of fish" have already created a strong contrast, but the author obviously thinks it is not enough. The empty line is added before "darkness conquers light", which makes people feel the scheming of "blind people" and the ignorance of "young girls", and the phrase "darkness conquers light again" is even more inspiring.