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How to treat the decline of ancient poetry?

Nowadays, not only ancient poetry has declined, but even modern poetry that flourished in the 1980s and 1990s has gradually withdrawn from the front line of literature. On the contrary, novels have ancient bottom literature and relatively vulgar literature, and become the mainstream of today's literary world. Is the decline of ancient poetry inevitable for the development of literature? Or the retrogression of literature? We don't know yet. But in fact, ancient poetry has gradually withdrawn from our field of vision (except for a few poets who enjoy writing a few poems). There are many reasons for the decline of ancient poetry. Here, the author tries to analyze: first of all, what is the preface to Mao Shi? It says, "Where the poet has ambition. Have ambition in your heart and speak like a poem. Emotion is in the heart, and action is in the words. Not enough, so I lament. Lament for lack, so sing forever. " If you don't know how to dance with your hands, you can dance with your feet "It can be seen that poetry is to express inner feelings and desires (of course, this is not to say that everyone in ancient times was like this, but only for the upper class).