How Poetry Should Be Classified 5, How Poetry Should Be Classified

It depends on what it is.

By time: there are classical poems and modern poems.

According to the category: there are Tang poems, Song poems, Yuan songs, prose poems, etc.

According to the content: there are lyric poems, patriotic poems, landscape poems and so on.

There are many other categories that are not listed one by one.

Lyric poetry, philosophical poetry, narrative poetry.

By the times, poets, narratives, philosophies, lyricism.

Poetry is divided into two categories: ancient poems and modern poems according to time.

1. Ancient poetry: Ancient poetry, that is, ancient Chinese poetry, refers to Chinese poetry before the Opium War in 1840. Its original meaning is a poem written by ancient people.

Broadly speaking, ancient Chinese poetry includes poems, lyrics, and essays composed by ancient people; In a narrow sense, ancient poetry only refers to ancient style poems and near-style poems made by ancient people.

Ancient style poems: including ancient poems (poems before the Tang Dynasty), Chu Ci, and Yuefu poems. Poems on ancient poetry themes such as "song", "song line", "introduction", "song" and "chanting" also belong to ancient style poems.

Ancient style poems do not talk about battles, and the rhyme is freer. The development trajectory of ancient style poetry: "Book of Songs" Chu Ci, Han Fu, Han Yuefu, Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties Folk Songs, Jian'an Poems, Tao Poems and other literati five-character poems, the ancient style of the Tang Dynasty, and the new Yuefu.

Near-style poetry: The near-style poem, also known as the modern style poem, is a kind of rhythmic style poetry formed in the Tang Dynasty, which is divided into two types, and its number of words, sentences, ping, rhyme, etc. are strictly regulated.

2. Modern poetry.

Modern poetry, also known as "vernacular poetry", can be traced back to the late Qing Dynasty at the earliest, and is a kind of poetry.

Compared with ancient poems, although they are all made for the feeling of things, they are all reflections of the soul, but they completely break through the characteristics of ancient poems of "gentleness and generosity, sorrow but not complaint", and emphasize more freedom and openness, straightforward statements and communication between "the sensible and the intangible".

The mainstream of modern poetry is free-form new poetry. The free-form new poetry is a product of the "May Fourth" New Culture Movement, which adopts the vernacular in form, breaks the shackles of the old style of poetry, and mainly reflects the new life and expresses new ideas in terms of content.

Modern Chinese poetry can also be divided into two relatively independent phases:

Modern Chinese Poetry: Poetry before the first half of the twentieth century is called "Modern Chinese Poetry".

Contemporary Chinese Poetry: Poetry from the second half of the twentieth century onwards is called "Contemporary Chinese Poetry".

Features of poetry:

The poem is full of the author's thoughts and feelings and rich imagination, the language is concise and vivid, with a distinct rhythm, harmonious rhyme, rich in beauty, sentences are generally arranged in lines, and the beauty of structure and form is emphasized.

He Qifang, a modern poet and literary critic in China, once said: "Poetry is a literary style that most intensively reflects social life, it is full of rich imagination and feelings, and is often expressed in a direct lyrical way, and in the degree of refinement and harmony, especially in the distinctness of rhythm, its language is different from the language of prose." ”

This defining statement summarizes several basic characteristics of poetry:

1. The content of poetry is the most concentrated reflection of social life.

2. Poetry is rich in emotion and imagination.

3. The language of poetry has the characteristics of conciseness, imagery, harmonious tone, and distinct rhythm.

4. In terms of form, poetry is not based on sentences, but on actions, and the lines are mainly based on rhythm, rather than meaning.

Poems are classified according to the rhythmic rhythm and structural form of the language of the work: metrical poetry, free verse, prose poetry and rhyme poetry.

1. Rhythmic poetry, also known as near-style poetry, is a type of ancient Chinese poetry. Rhythmic poems are poems formed after the Tang Dynasty, which are mainly divided into quatrains and rhythmic poems, which can be divided into five words and seven words according to the number of words in each sentence. There are certain specifications for the structure and sentence structure, there are certain rules for the pronunciation, and certain rules are also required to be observed for the use of changes.

2. Free verse is a poem with no regular syllables, rhymes, and other formal designs. It pursues an "organic form" and relies on the natural rhythm of speech. This kind of speech is "natural" to the subject matter and feelings of the poem.

3. Prose poetry is a modern literary genre that combines the characteristics of poetry and prose. It incorporates certain features of poetic expressiveness and prose descriptiveness. Prose poems generally express the author's small feelings based on social and life backgrounds, and pay attention to describing the fluctuations and fragments of thoughts and emotions triggered by objective life.

These characteristics determine the richness of its subject matter, and it also determines its short and flexible form.

4. Rhyme poems belong to a kind of Chinese literary genre, as the name suggests, it generally means that the end of each line of poetry must rhyme, and the poem reads catchy like a ballad. The rhyme poem here refers to the modern rhyme poem, which belongs to a new type of poetry.

Poetry can be divided into ancient and modern poetry.

Classification of ancient poems: 1 Poems are divided into two categories: ancient poems and near-style poems. Ancient style poetry and modern style poetry are concepts formed in the Tang Dynasty, which are divided from the perspective of the rhythm of poetry.

2 Classified according to content: it can be divided into narrative poems, lyric poems, farewell poems, side poems, landscape idylls, nostalgic poems (epic poems), poetry of things, mourning poems, and satirical poems.

Modern Poetry Classification:

There are also various ways to classify poetry, which can be divided into different categories according to different principles and criteria. The basic ones are as follows:

1 Narrative poems and lyric poems. This is divided according to the way in which the content of the work is expressed.

2 Metrical poetry, free verse, and prose poetry. This is classified according to the phonological rhythm and structural form of the language of the work.