How to treat the value and function of poetry in pre-Qin literary theory

Poetry is a literary genre that reflects real life and expresses thoughts and feelings with strong feelings and rich imagination through rhythmic language. Lyrical color, beautiful rhyme and implicit conciseness are the three basic characteristics of poetry.

There are many kinds of poems. From the content, there are mainly lyric poems and narrative poems, and from the form, there are metrical poems, free poems and folk songs.

China's poems have a long history, and there are many excellent works. In ancient China, unhappy people were called poems and happy people were called songs and lyrics.

The ancients said that "poetry expresses ambition, and songs express ambition" refers to the role of poetry and songs. Poetry by modern people mainly refers to poetry, while poetry refers to poetry and songs ~