Why can poetry save the soul, reflect on reality and face itself squarely?

As a style, poetry itself cannot carry too many missions. However, every nation has a tradition of poetry. In this tradition, we find that poetry often has a sacred aura.

It can often be seen that a nation or individual's aesthetic taste and attitude towards life can often reflect the mental outlook and value orientation of a person or an era, and can often give people confidence in life and courage to advance, and awaken a noble or clean spirit.

The most fundamental thing is to make people's lives poetic. Holderlin once said: Man lives poetically on the earth. It can be seen that it mainly has a poetic lifestyle. If everyone's life is full of poetry, then this is an important embodiment of happiness.

What people lack at present is a poetic life, a dignified life and a life full of happiness. Poetry, on the other hand, has the functions of saving souls, reflecting on reality, facing up to self, comforting suffering souls and achieving self. Perhaps, with a poetic life, we won't go too far on the road to find the feeling of home.

Poetry still plays an important role in people's poetry appreciation, Tao Qing governance and even social interaction. To put it more popularly, it means that contemporary people are interested in classical poetry, and they inherit the traditional concept of poetry, and use poetry to praise emotions and stab beauty in reality, so that contemporary poetry still has an important function in expressing contemporary people's feelings and thoughts and reflecting contemporary people's lives.

Extended data:

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.

The content of poetry is the most concentrated reflection of social life. Poetry is full of emotion and imagination. Poetry language has the characteristics of conciseness, image, harmonious tone and distinct rhythm. In form, poetry is not based on sentences, but on behavior, and its branches are mainly based on rhythm rather than meaning.

There are many forms of expression of poetry, which are constantly developing and creating since ancient times, and their application is also flexible, exaggerated, repetitive, overlapping, jumping and so on. It's hard to describe. However, all methods are inseparable from imagination. Rich imagination is not only a major feature of poetry, but also the most important form of expression of poetry.

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