Poetry in a broad sense is the general name of all arts (including literature as a language art), synonymous with natural beauty, artistic beauty and life beauty, a way for human beings to observe the world, and a way for human souls to inhabit after escaping from reality. As a general term of art, it can be said that all art is poetry: music is a poem flowing in time coordinates, painting and sculpture are two-dimensional or three-dimensional figurative poems, architecture is a poem that formats space, dance is a poem that human language develops together in time and space, and prose and novels are blank poems.
Therefore, Tang poetry, Song Ci, Yuan Qu and other artistic forms are all poetic forms in a broad sense.
From the heroic epic A Forgotten Babylon, especially from China's The Book of Songs and Homer's epic in ancient Greece, poetry in a narrow sense has been created, disseminated and appreciated for thousands of years. In China, it was regarded as an authentic literary style before modern times. Ancient times included the Book of Songs and Tang poems, and now there are modern poems.