Does anyone know what new poetry has to do with tradition?

What is the relationship between new poetry and old poetry?

-There is no doubt that new poetry is the development direction of China's poetry.

For the loss of readers of modern poetry, the revival of traditional poetry has caused some important questions related to the development of China's poetry: "In China, a country known for its poetry, is new poetry or traditional poetry representative of China's poetry? What is the relationship between the two? " This spring, there was a large-scale reporter's comment entitled "Don't call me an old poem" in China Reading Newspaper-"Meet the old and the new" surged in the poetry circle.

The article points out that at present, no one has systematically studied the above problems, including the names of the two. The article quotes Mr. Ke Li as saying that "the names of new poems and old poems are not right, and poems can't be divided into fresh ones and old ones". "Metaphorically, the relationship between new poetry and traditional poetry is just like the relationship between oil painting and Chinese painting, and the relationship between western food and Chinese food. Can you call oil painting' new painting', Chinese painting' old painting', western food' new rice' and Chinese food' old rice'? "

The article also quote Mr. Wang Guoqin as saying: "that revival of traditional culture and China's poetry is relate to the great historical background. The new poetry advocated by Hu Shi during the May Fourth Movement only borrowed the prose language form translated from the West. " "China's poetry is the best expression that is most suitable for China's language and writing." Obviously, both Mr. Li and Mr. Wang think that traditional poetry represents China's poetry, while new poetry is imported.

They also pointed out the problem of name correction and said: "The most urgent problem is name correction. If this misunderstanding is not solved, it will be difficult for China's poetry to progress. " Is it true?/You don't say. Is it necessary to correct the name? The original intention of commenting on the article is to arouse people's discussion. The article begins with a thought-provoking question, "What happened to poetry? Is traditional poetry going to prosper, or is new poetry beginning to decline? "

It's just that the newspaper doesn't seem to publish any follow-up articles, and the deserted poetry circle has become lively.

I want to put forward these important issues related to the development of China's poetry and express my views, so as to attract the attention of friends who love poetry and conduct in-depth discussions.

New style poems (new poems) and classical metrical poems (old poems) are both poetic styles of China's poems.

Before the May 4th Movement, China's poetic style included metrical poetic style (quatrains, metrical poems, words and songs) and non-metrical ancient poems.

During the May 4th Movement, China's new poetry movement rose, and China's original poems (including metrical poems and non-metrical ancient poems) abdicated to old-style poems, just as metrical poems were called "modern poems" and "modern poems" and original non-metrical poems were called "ancient poems" at the beginning of the Six Dynasties and the Tang Dynasty.

The appellations of "new poems" and "old poems" since the May 4th Movement refer to poetic style, while "new poems" and "old poems" are called according to poetic style times, not poems.

The seven-rhythm poem written in the spring of 2002 can be said to be a new work, a new old-style poem or a new old-style poem, and there is nothing wrong with it.

New poetry is not imported. Although influenced by the world new poetry movement, it was born in the land of China and has a profound historical background.

Where are the new poems?

The May 4th Movement is an ideological emancipation movement, advocating a new culture of democracy and science and opposing the old culture of feudal autocracy. The New Poetry Movement is an important part of the May 4th New Culture Movement. It advocates writing poems in vernacular Chinese, a modern language of life, and spreading new ideas with new forms of free poetry. The new poetry in the new culture movement is a new language, new form and new idea to the feudal old culture.

At that time, China culture was divided into two camps, the camp that wrote new poems to promote new culture and the camp that kept the old culture. At that time, the relationship between the two camps was antagonistic. It is an old-school theory to attack new poetry as an exotic product and call old culture a "national quintessence".

China's new poetry movement was born under the background of breaking the shackles of old ideas and criticizing the old poetry style, thus ignoring the inheritance of China's excellent poetry tradition. The new poetry born under the background of cutting off history has "congenital deficiency", while the narrow and empty poetry theory that belittles the art of poetry has ruled the poetry world for a long time, and many concepts and practices of exploring the art of poetry have been suppressed. China's new poems suffered from "theoretical anemia" for a long time.

There is a saying in China's poetry circles: "New poetry is easier to write than to do." Why? What does the word "work" mean in poetry? What is the essence of poetry? What should poetry show? What is the aesthetic standard of poetry content? In what ways does new poetry broaden the expressive force of poetry? What is the relationship between new poetry and old poetry? What are the similarities between new poetry and old poetry? What are the reasonable connotations and disadvantages of the existence and development of China's old-style poems? What are the aesthetic requirements of poetic style? What form should new poetry pursue? China's new poetry movement still lacks a systematic and solid theory based on poetics and China's poetics and linked with China's new poetry practice.

From a historical point of view, both new poetry and old poetry are China's poems, and new poetry is the transformation and development of old poetry. Authors who love new poetry should not only see the new features of new poetry, but also admit that new poetry is the development of China's poetry and the inheritor of China's fine tradition of poetry.

China's traditional poems include not only metrical poems, but also non-metrical poems. For example, The Book of Songs and Li Sao are both representative works of Chinese poetry, and there are also many representative works of Ci Fu and folk songs. But now, with the exception of a few famous works such as Mulan Ci, Peacock Flying Southeast, Difficult to Go to the Sky, and Autumn Wind Breaking the Cottage, the bulk of China's poetry is ignored by China's poetics.

Today, it is the decimal system that hinders the development of China's poetry, so that, as Wang Guowei lamented, China's poetry has not had much vitality for more than 600 years since the Tang and Song Dynasties.

However, we advocate the new poetic style, but we only oppose the rigid and rigid meter and stereotyped meter.

New poetry also needs form and writing rules. The difference between poetry and prose lies in form and expression. It is not that the content of poetry cannot be expressed in speeches and articles, but that the author of poetry thinks that the form and artistic expression of poetry can be more infectious.

In fact, a good poem is often more influential than a good article or a good speech with the same content, and it spreads farther in time and region. The artistry of poetry is the vitality of poetry, and the author of new poetry must study and master the law of poetry vitality.

I firmly believe that poetry is the flower of life, and life needs poetry;

The growth of China's new poetry needs poetics, poetics and new poetics; The author of new poetry must master the theory. If you just follow the trend and write for a while, you can't even touch the skirt of the goddess of poetry. I don't know what poetry is. How does poetry play its role? Poetry is not mysterious, but for rich and complicated things, we must analyze and summarize them with theoretical thinking in order to have an outline.

"Poetry is pure literature with rhythm" is the definition given by Mr. Zhu Guangqian (see On Poetry).

Understand that poetry is a kind of literature. Literature is the expression of people's life and the result of people's life and thinking. Literature not only shows the bitterness and joy of the author's own life experience, but also shows the results of the author's comprehensive observation and in-depth thinking on social life, and shows the author's pursuit of life and dream of life. As literary works, the latter two are more important and have more literary value.

In this respect, poetry is no different from other literary works, except that poetry originates from singing and chanting and is based on human memory. For a long time, it has formed a style that is easy to read, sing, remember, musical and short. Therefore, this style of poetry requires higher content selection, omitting unimportant processes and details in the life plot, and focusing on important parts and results; Omitted the author's observation and thinking process of life, focusing on the author's perception of life. Therefore, poetry shows life and the essence of life more intensively than other literature.

Heidegger believes that poetry is the true meaning of all art "the essence of art is poetic". Poets have always been committed to expressing the voice of the times and the people, helping life, improving life and improving human quality, so that people can live poetically. People love poetry. Although real life is difficult, tasting the nectar of poetry will make people bravely strive for a better future.

Firmly believe that new poetry is the development direction of China's poetry; China's poetry will be revived.

Poetry is more subjective and lyrical than other literary works. Music is the art of expressing emotions, and musicality is the greatest feature of poetry style. Poetry also has higher requirements in language expression. Poetry is called the highest form of language art and the best combination of the best words.

Classical metrical style is a mature poetic style, which has strict requirements on the rhythm and simplicity of poetry, and its form is also beautiful in architecture. In this format, it is easier to achieve the best text arrangement in line with the poetic style.

As Lu You said in his poem "Xiuer", I knew everything was empty when I died/but I was sad to see Kyushu/Julian Waghann Beiding Zhongyuan Day/I didn't forget to tell you about the family sacrifice. "It seems clear, but if you write in general terms, your charm will be greatly reduced. China's quatrains are short and pithy, with beautiful style, which is very suitable for concisely expressing the contents of inscriptions and inscriptions. Many masterpieces of China's quatrains are also a must in poetry.

Friends who love new poetry should see the immaturity of new poetry and realize the importance of studying the aesthetic content and form of poetry. New poetry is mainly free verse, which breaks through the shackles of metrical poetry, but we can't think that free verse can follow one's inclinations. What's the difference between poetry and speech? How can it be called poetry without artistry?

I think free verse should be understood as a poetic style that freely uses artistic techniques and techniques to create and express the best content in the best form. "New poetry is easy to write, but difficult to write". The reason why it is easy to write is that you can freely use artistic means. However, new poetry broadens the expressive content of poetry. To express colorful life and feelings, the author needs to master and use more colorful artistic means and create more diverse forms than the authors of old poems, which is the difficulty of new poems.

If we ignore the stylistic requirements of poetry such as vividness, conciseness, novelty, musical beauty and architectural beauty, how can new poetry operate? Although new poetry is a new thing, its maturity needs a process. But time is not the only factor for the maturity of new poetry.

The maturity of new poetry depends on the writer's inheritance of the excellent tradition of China's poetry. Absorb the essence of world poetry, learn from the achievements of foreign new poetry, especially summarize the experience of the development of new poetry in the past hundred years, attach importance to theoretical research, learn from the achievements of predecessors, be brave in innovation, and constantly explore, summarize and improve.

Friends who advocate the revival of traditional poetry should also see the disadvantages of metrical poetry. Too strict meter and rigid meter limit the expressive ability of poetry. Great poets such as Li Bai, Du Fu and Bai Juyi in the prosperous Tang Dynasty also created many excellent poems full of life flavor with unconventional and free and rambling ancient styles. Li Bai and Bai Juyi also created with lively folk songs-"Ci", and China's poetry developed from a poetic style with unified words.

We should realize that China's traditional metrical poems are based on the use of ancient Chinese and written in ancient grammar. Therefore, in order to widely use it to express modern life, it is necessary to transform it. But it is not traditional after the transformation. Therefore, traditional metrical poetry is a kind of historical poetry.

During the May 4th Movement, the "confrontation between the old and the new" in China's poetry circles was mainly the confrontation between the old and the new cultures. The "confrontation between the old and the new" in today's poetry circles is not only a dispute between metrical style and free style, but also a dispute over which style to write poetry, whether to write poetry in the old style (classical Chinese) or insist on writing poetry in the modern language (vernacular Chinese) advocated by the May 4th Movement.

We believe that only by writing poems in modern languages can we better express modern life. "People are always more easily moved by the art of their own time, not because art has become more perfect, but because it has an organic connection with him." (See what I have learned by ehrenburg). New poetry is the product of the times and language development, so we firmly believe that new poetry is the development direction of China's poetry.

China's classical poetry is one of the cultural treasures of China. We should popularize the knowledge of traditional poetry in order to appreciate classical poetry better, inherit the fine tradition of China's poetry, absorb the essence of his thought and art, and develop China's modern poetry.

China's modern Chinese has matured, and so has China's modern style. China's new poems should be mature! Friends who love poetry, let's sum up our experience, be brave in innovation and push forward the new poetry movement. Complete the historical mission of realizing the modernization of China's poetry advocated by the May 4th Movement. Poetry is a symbol of national style, and the revival of China will inevitably lead to the revival of China's poetry.