What is the meaning of poetry?

The essence of poetry is: rhythmic words. Many poems are rhyming, so we should have a sense of rhythm and a sense of rhythm without rhyme. Although Zhao Lihua's pear-shaped body has been criticized by everyone, what she writes is really a poem, because by punctuating sentences, an ordinary discourse has a sense of rhythm and is also a poem. What are the two facts of poetry? The first fact: What is the formal difference between poetry and ordinary discourse? -It's a sense of rhythm. The second fact: not only good poems can be called poems. Therefore, pear style is a poem, but it is not necessarily a good poem; Therefore, Zhang Taiyan said that "Hundred Family Names" and "Songs of Medical Prescriptions" are poems, so limerick is also a poem, but these are not good poems. Songs also have a sense of rhythm. Is a song a poem? Singing is a song, and words that are not sung but have a sense of rhythm are poems. Poetry is a literary genre, which expresses social life and people's spiritual world with concise language, rich emotions and rich phenomena according to the requirements of certain syllables, tones and rhythms. In ancient China, unhappy people were called poems and happy people were called songs. It exists in the cultural tradition of human beings, and we have always maintained a high respect for words such as "poetry", "lyricism" and "beauty". Human beings not only have the ability to express their feelings, but also have this need, based on the need of survival. In this way, lyric poetry is not only an aesthetic problem, but also a survival problem, and lyric attitude has become a category of human existence. With the development of civilization and the emergence of social division of labor, there have been "poets" who specialize in poetry. The division between poets and non-poets arises from this. Poetry and poets are always associated with some mysterious force. Poets are considered to be special and mysterious figures selected by and inspired by God. Poetics is about poetry, just as aesthetics is about beauty, it is difficult to have an accepted definition. If you ask a poet "what is poetry", just like you ask an aesthete "what is beauty", it is difficult to get your satisfactory answer. Poetry is difficult to define, probably because "it belongs to the spiritual world too much, and it is spiritual in space". Poetry can be divided into broad sense and narrow sense. When poems in broad sense and narrow sense are mixed together, "what is poetry" becomes more complicated. Heidegger is not satisfied with "classifying poetry into literature" and disagrees that "poetry must find its existing form in literature". This is inevitably a biased theory. Poetry is a kind of language art, and it certainly belongs to literature, which includes poetry, prose and novels. Is there any doubt about this? However, the so-called poems here are only poems in a narrow sense. There is also a kind of poem in a broad sense. Poetry in a broad sense no longer belongs to literature, nor is it a branch and part of literature.