Poetry is a literary genre.
A literary genre that expresses the author's rich emotions in highly concise language, reflects social life and has a certain rhythm and rhythm.
Poetry is a lyrical literary genre. "Shi Mao-Preface" records: "Poets have aspirations. Have ambition in your heart and speak like a poem. "
Yan Yu's Poems on Canglang in the Southern Song Dynasty said that "poets chant temperament". There is only one art expressed in words: poetry.
Poetry is full of the author's thoughts, feelings and rich imagination. The language is concise and vivid, with distinct rhythm, harmonious phonology and rich musical beauty. Sentences are generally in rows, paying attention to the beauty of structure and form.
He Qifang, a modern poet and literary critic in China, once said: "Poetry is the literary style that most strongly reflects social life. Full of imagination and emotion, it is often expressed in a direct lyric way.
Moreover, in the exquisite and harmonious degree, especially in the clear rhythm, its language and prose are different. This definition summarizes several basic characteristics of poetry: First, it reflects life in a highly concentrated and generalized way.
The second is lyrical expression, full of rich thoughts and feelings; Third, rich imagination, association and fantasy; Fourth, language has musical beauty.
Four characteristics:
(1) The content of poetry is the most concentrated reflection of social life.
(2) Poetry is full of emotion and imagination.
(3) The poetic language is characterized by conciseness, image, harmonious tone and distinct rhythm.
(4) In form, poetry is not based on sentences, but on behavior, and its branches are mainly based on rhythm, not meaning.