Poetry, like music, is about rhythm.

Meaning: A poem should have a distinct sense of pause and cadence, as well as a sense of rhythm and melody necessary for music. It can be seen that the rhythm of poetry is important.

"Poetry, like music, pays attention to rhythm." This is a famous saying of modern and contemporary aesthetician Zhu Guangqian.

Poetry pays attention to rhythm and rhyme, just like music, musicality plays an important role in poetry.

In Zhu Guangqian's view, poetry is the world dominated by the poet's heart and another realm of life created by him. This is the realm of poetry, and this is the artistic essence of poetry.

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Poetry is the same as music and dance-Zhu Guangqian

As far as the origin of human poetry is concerned, the evidence of history and archaeology is far less important than that of anthropology and sociology, because the former takes ancient poetry as the object and is difficult to record; The latter is based on modern folk songs and is conclusive. We should give priority to the latter and the former. From these two evidences, we can draw a very important conclusion, that is, poetry, music and dance are in the same strain, which was originally a trinity mixed art.

Poetry, music and dance used to be mixed together. Their lifeblood is rhythm. In primitive times, poetry can be meaningless, music can be without "harmony", and dance can have rhythm regardless of posture. Later, the three kinds of arts were separated, and each kept the rhythm, but outside the rhythm, music tried to develop towards "harmony", dance tried to develop towards posture, and poetry tried to develop towards literal meaning, so the distance between the two became farther and farther.