Want to learn poetry, from which books to read 知乎

If you want to learn poetry, you should first read some of the works of your predecessors, such as "Three Hundred Poems of the Tang Dynasty" and "Selected Song Lyrics", etc., and try to read as much as you can of the ones that you feel y about, so that you can savor the beauty of them over and over again.

Next, you need to understand and master the sound and rhyme of poetry, meter, and common sense. This is not very difficult. For the meter, you can use Mr. Wang Li's "Poetry Metrics", which is available in bookstores and as an e-book on the Internet for free download. You can also use Mr. Wang Li's "Poetry Metrics", available in bookstores and as an e-book on the internet. Regarding sound and rhyme, the basic tools are Ping Shui Yun (平水韵), which is used for writing poems, and Zheng Rhyun (词林正韵), which is used for filling in lyrics. They are old rhymes, which have divided the pronunciation of Chinese characters into different rhyme sections according to their level and oblique levels, and it is very convenient to rhyme according to the rhyme sections and check the characters according to their level and oblique levels.

At this point, it's time to get down to writing. When you start to write a poem, find a favorite work of your predecessor to imitate. The first thing you need to do is figure out the genre and the meter, check it against the meter, and see how it follows the meter. That's all you need to do to be able to imitate it.

Finally, write your first work independently, play with it again and again, revise it again and again, until its situation and content are more decent, and then seek the opinion of some people who understand.

Get out of the first step, and I'm sure you'll soar. In terms of the learning process, if you have a high school education, language foundation is better, if you take some time every day, three or five months to learn.