March 18th came soon, which was the day when the exchange meeting of the Poetry Association of the Seven Northern Provinces was held. The exchange meeting was held as scheduled at the city center hotel in Changshan City, Hexi Province.
In the top-floor banquet hall of the city center hotel, representatives from various provinces gathered together. After all, they were all elegant people, well-dressed, with gentle smiles on their faces, and everyone was chatting cordially.
Just like what Liu Yuxi wrote in "The Inscription of the Humble Room": "There are great scholars who talk and laugh, but there are no white people who come and go."
Organizing such poetry exchange activities is, firstly, to provide a platform for poets to discuss and exchange poetry creations together on a regular basis; secondly, it is also to attract more poetry lovers through such lectures and exchanges.
Actively participate.
While using pure literature like poetry to enrich people’s spiritual lives, we also inherit and carry forward our excellent Chinese poetry.
The process of the exchange meeting is that at the beginning, each of the seven teams from the seven provinces will send a representative to give a speech on the research results of poetry, and then conduct literary discussions and exchanges, compose poems based on the theme and improvise on the spot, and finally
Then decide who is the first among the seven provinces.
Representatives from each province took turns to take the stage to give speeches. The first person to take the stage was the Hedong Provincial Poetry Association. Lou Yeping was the well-deserved representative. Amidst the applause of the crowd, Lou Yeping walked onto the stage with a smile.
"Good evening everyone!"
Everyone in the audience was also very considerate and responded to Lou Yeping with warm applause.
"Time is limited. Let me first talk about how to view the issue of writing poetry. We have talked about the continuation of poems before and there are many theories. I will talk about my personal understanding of writing poetry, which was also sent to me by friends a few days ago.
I would like to share with you some of the insights I have gained from my work. First of all, let me state that I am not a good poet, but at least I am a person who reads poetry relatively well and can be a qualified poetry appreciator. Since I
As a poetry appreciator, I have my own understanding of the poems written by everyone. As a reader, what kind of poems are good poems? This question, from my perspective as a reader, I would like to share with you my understanding. You may have some questions.
It will help everyone improve their poetry writing. Returning to the main story, since we look at poetry from the perspective of readers, we must first make it clear. Many friends told me that I have been writing poetry for a long time and have written many poems, but I always feel that
I couldn’t write well, and I no longer had confidence in writing poetry. I asked him, what kind of poems do you know are good poems? At this point, I also want to ask everyone, what do you think is a good poem?
?”
As soon as Lou Yeping's question was raised, everyone in the audience began to answer his question.
"I think a good poem can make everyone feel the emotion expressed in the poem, and can arouse emotional resonance between everyone and the author? This is a good poem."
Another person put down the wine glass in his hand, then stood up and said.
“What I think is a good poem is one that does not require too many gorgeous words and only needs a few words to let everyone understand what kind of emotion the poem is trying to express. It is easy to understand, not
Use some gorgeous words to pile up emotionless words, and only when there is real emotion in the poem can it be a good poem."
"In my opinion, it's not the case. If a poem is too easy to understand, how is it different from vernacular writing? You should write an endless story in the most concise and comprehensive way. This is what a good poem should look like.
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"..."
There are many more answers like this, but the only thing in common among these different answers is that they all mentioned one word: feelings.
Lou Yeping listened very patiently to everyone's answers before continuing to speak.
"What is good and what is bad? I personally know that some poems are written for oneself, some are written for a few people, and some are written for the majority of people. The difference between good and bad poems is between classics and
What is the difference between the ordinary? There are some poems that only I can understand, and there are some poems that only a few people can understand. For example, some poems that sing harmony, and some works that record emotions, maybe only I can understand them. These works are ordinary.
The work may meet the requirements of the meter, but it is just a narrative of feelings. It can be said in words that others cannot. We have talked about fine thinking, clever thinking, thoughtful thinking, etc. before. You have only achieved one of them, but
When you can really say something that others cannot express, then this is a good poem!"
After Lou Yeping finished speaking, the audience burst into thunderous applause.
Next, the remaining representatives took the stage to speak, most of which focused on how to write a good poem and how to correctly appreciate the poem.
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After the speech session, the next step is to improvise on the spot based on the given theme words, and select one of the most representative poems from the poems of the seven teams for appreciation.
In the impromptu poetry writing competition, the flag teams need to draw lots to determine the order.
Lou Yeping personally drew a bamboo stick, and he happened to win the number seven. In fact, the order was not a big deal. However, when the members of the Hedong Province Poetry Association team heard that the order was number seven, they still all
Very happy.
Everyone is confused about what to use for the first theme word.
In fact, writing poetry is nothing more than sadness for spring and autumn, or emotion about life. Most of them are written after experiencing something. It is actually quite difficult to come up with a theme word now.
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Just when everyone was at a loss, one person suddenly had an idea and stood up and said loudly.
"Isn't it true that the entertainment industry has been very popular recently because of movies? The most popular one is the fairy movie "The Immortal". How about we use (immortal) as the theme and then write poems?
After everyone heard this proposal, they all nodded in agreement.
Anyway, what impromptu poetry writing tests is the ability to express it on the spot. It would be easier to write if you just use some common themes. Now this theme is almost unheard of and unprecedented. Using such a novel theme as the center of writing a poem
, it can be considered a challenge.
After getting everyone's consent, we improvised according to the order of the initial draw.
Listening to the other teams talking incessantly, Lou Yeping felt more and more panicked. Although he had also seen the promotion of the movie "The Immortal" on the Internet, he didn't know much about it.
Lou Yeping never expected that the theme words at the exchange meeting would be associated with the movie "The Immortal".
Seeing that the team of the Hedong Provincial Poetry Association was about to arrive, everyone in the team began to panic. In the panic, their minds went blank and they could not think of any poems about (immortal).
, let alone write a rhyming poem.
In desperation, Lou Yeping thought of the movie "Charlotte" which was said to be "the most overestimating opponent" on the Internet based on the movie "The Immortal". After all, he originally learned that the screenwriter of this movie was Yang Bei.
After that, I got to know the movie to a certain extent.
Lou Yeping had an idea and immediately leaned over the paper and started writing...