Hong Chunming 
Classification and Appreciation of Ancient Poetry 

The book divides poems into six categories, namely, farewell poems for friends, homesickness poems for travelers, frontier fortress poems, history-nostalgia poems, pastoral landscape poems and poems about objects and ideals. Each category is divided into six columns: subject summary, content and emotional tendencies, guidance of appreciation methods, appreciation examples, intensive trainings and relevant links. This book will help students understand the common genres and emotions expressed in poems so as to deepen the understanding of a certain type of poetry image and technique, and to improve the ability to appreciate poetry. At the same time, the book is accompanied by the reciting poems for the college entrance examination, which is convenient for students to memorize.