What is poetry? What are the characteristics of children's poetry?

Poetry, also known as poetry, is a literary form and the earliest literary genre. Poetry appeared before words appeared. China's ancient poems are also combined with music and dance. Those who enjoy music are called songs, while those who don't enjoy music are called poems. Poetry now generally refers to poems that don't enjoy music. Ci is a kind of song, which rose in the Tang Dynasty and became the most popular in the Song Dynasty. China is a big country in poetry, and the poems of Tang and Song Dynasties spread all over the world, which is a precious legacy of China literature. Poetry is characterized by high concentration, high generalization of social life, rich feelings and imagination, concise language, image and meaning, harmonious tone and distinct rhythm and rhythm. There are many kinds of poems, which are divided into metrical poems and free poems in format and lyric poems and narrative poems in expression. These poems can be divided into many types in each capital, such as metrical poems, five-character quatrains, seven-character quatrains and seven-character metrical poems, while lyric poems can be divided into love poems and misty poems. From the service object, it can also be divided into children's poems. Children's poems refer to poems specially created for children, which combine children's growth and psychological characteristics and are suitable for children to read, appreciate and learn. The characteristics of children's poetry are: (1) clear love and hate, and clear views. Poetry is generally implicit, but due to the characteristics of children's development, their intellectual thinking is in a developing period, and their ability to distinguish right from wrong is poor and plastic, so the views in poetry must clearly tell readers their love and hate. (2) The concept is novel and interesting. Because children's thinking form is concrete thinking in images, children's poetry must adapt to this feature and adopt vivid language and vivid plots to attract readers. (3) The content is single and the length is short. This is to meet the needs of children's understanding and endurance. (4) The language is lively and has a strong sense of rhythm. This is to exercise and cultivate children's language ability. For example, children's poem "Letter to Spring Girl" (Author: Jiangnan): Spring breeze, carefully send a letter to Spring Girl. When Miss Chun saw it, ah, it was a kite! The child who sent the letter is running on the ground. He said: Welcome, Miss Chun.