Which poet is the soul of poetry?

"Poetic Soul" refers to Qu Yuan, a poet of Chu State in the Warring States Period. He is the first patriotic poet in the history of China, also known as "the ancestor of China's poetry". Because his appearance marks the transformation of China's poetry from collective to individual, he is called "the soul of poetry".

Qu Yuan is a great patriotic poet in China's history, the founder of China's romantic literature, the founder and representative writer of Songs of the South, who initiated the tradition of "vanilla beauty" and was known as the "father of Songs of the South". Song Yu, Jing Ke and other famous poets in Chu were all influenced by Qu Yuan.

The appearance of Qu Yuan's works marks that China's poetry has entered a new era from elegant harmony to romantic originality. His main works are Li Sao, Nine Songs, Nine Chapters and Nine Smells.