Novels, fables and fairy tales mainly reproduce life through characters or animals and storylines; Prose mainly reproduces life with the help of some characters, events and scenes; Drama mainly reproduces life through the contradictions and conflicts of characters, language and narration. Poetry, on the other hand, mainly reflects life through lyric. Therefore, lyricism is the language art of poetry. Some people call lyric the soul of poetry.
The lyricism of poetry means that poetry not only reflects life and expresses the author's thoughts and feelings in a lyrical way, but also touches and educates readers in a lyrical way. Guo Moruo once said: "Poetry is dedicated to lyricism." Lyricity constitutes the artistic life of poetry. Without lyricism, there is no poetry, because without lyricism, there is no basic value. China's earliest collection of poems, The Book of Songs, reflects people's life and feelings three thousand years ago.
Some people say that poetry is used to express feelings. We can't transcend time and space in the physical sense, but we can transcend time and space in the psychological sense, and this transcendence is accomplished through lyricism in poetry.