There are several interpretations of poetry: 1, which refers to Poetry 2 and the text of The Book of Songs. 3. Poetry and prose.
Poetry is the oldest and most basic literary form in the world, and it is a literary genre that expounds the soul. Poets need to master mature artistic skills and express social life and human spiritual world with concise language, rich emotions and rich images according to the requirements of certain syllables, tones and rhythms. Confucius believes that poetry has four functions: arousing, observing, gathering and telling. Lu Ji believes that "poetry is beautiful because of love." In ancient China, unhappy people were called poems and happy people were called songs. Later people call it poetry.