诗要押韵,是中国三千年诗史所定型的悠久传统,是从未出现过否定意见的。在押韵方面,旧体诗只存在押得好不好的问题,不存在要不要的问题。因为旧诗不押韵,诗就散了架,不成其为诗了。 至于新诗要不要押韵,却是一个老掉了牙的问题,争论了多久?可以说与新诗的发生发展同步而行,年逾古稀了吧。积半个多世纪争而不决的教训看来,这个问题,只凭单纯的理论交锋,很难争出有权威性的共识来。要解决这个问题,我以为必须摆脱单纯的理论争鸣,紧扣特定时空的创作实践,并参照真有实践意义的诗论,来看待新诗韵律的存废问题。 Rhyming with poems is a long tradition shaped by the three thousand-year history of Chinese poetry and has never had any negative opinions. In terms of rhyming, old-style poetry exists only for the question of whether it is good or not, and that there is no problem to be solved. Because the old poem does not rhyme, the poem is scattered, not as poetry. As for the new poem or not to rhyme, but it is an old problem of tooth loss, argued for how long? It can be said that the occurrence and development of new poetry simultaneously, more seventy years old. It seems that over half a centuries’ unswerving lesson is that this issue can not be conquered by an authoritative consensus based solely on the confrontation of theories. In order to solve this problem, I think it is necessary to get rid of the purely theoretical debate, the practice of creation in a specific space-time, and refer to the poetics of practical significance to treat the issue of the preservation and abolishment of the rhythm of new poetry.