What is poetry? What is the fundamental difference between it and other literary genres?

Category: Culture/Art

Analysis:

Poetry is a literary genre, which reflects life and expresses a sense of * * * through rhythmic language.

Poetry originally refers to all creative literary works. With the development of literature and the diversification of literary forms, poetry refers to all forms of verse to distinguish it from blank prose. The appearance of prose poems and poetic novels blurs this distinction, indicating that this strict division is no longer convincing, and whether rhyme is the only obvious boundary between prose and poetry. Therefore, the concept of "poetry" has returned to the meaning of speculation rather than description, and is often used to refer to beautiful literary works with rich imagination and exquisite decoration.

Studying the theory and practice of poetry and thinking about some basic problems of poetry itself, such as studying what poetry is, its function and how to write it, is called poetics.