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What is symbolism?

Specifically, there are four aspects: first, polysemy, which has both superficial and deep meaning. Mainly through symbolic means. Such as pine, plum blossom, snow bamboo, Great Wall, lily and so on. Traditional symbols are too rational and form a rigid routine. There are hints, puns, euphemisms, etc

The second is jumping, which exceeds any stylistic language. Because of the rapid psychological activity. Do not use any prepositions, conjunctions and other Chinese media conjunctions. For example, "Maodian crows on the moon, Banqiao frost has no trace." It can also be logically chaotic and arbitrarily staggered. For example, time and space crisscross. For example, in Love on My Back, the poet fell in love with an ancient beauty.

The third is sensibility, which should have a sense of color, three-dimensional sense and concreteness (turning abstraction into concreteness). There are pictures in the poem.

Fourthly, musicality includes both internal musicality, that is, the rhythm of emotions, and external musicality, that is, the cycle of sound (rhyme, rhythm and tone). Play a regulatory role in primitive feelings. Rhythm is the decisive factor, the rhythm of things and the physiological rhythm of people-the adjustment of breathing and the reflection of motor sensation, the regular arrangement of sound groups and pauses. A word, a syllable, a monosyllable, a disyllable or a polysyllable with independent meaning form a sound group, and each sound group is followed by a long or short pause. Ancient poetry: five words "two, two, one". New poetry is free and open, with unique creation and changing rules.