Poetry is full of the author's thoughts, feelings and rich imagination. The language is concise and vivid, with distinct rhythm, harmonious phonology and rich musical beauty. Sentences are generally in rows, paying attention to the beauty of structure and form.
He Qifang, a modern poet and literary critic in China, once said: "Poetry is the literary style that most strongly reflects social life. It is full of rich imagination and feelings, and it is often expressed in a direct lyrical way. Moreover, in the degree of exquisiteness and harmony, especially in the distinct rhythm, its language and prose are different. " This definition summarizes several basic characteristics of poetry: first, it reflects life in a highly concentrated and general way; The second is lyrical expression, full of rich thoughts and feelings; Third, rich imagination, association and fantasy; Fourth, language has musical beauty.
It has the following four characteristics: the content of poetry is the most concentrated reflection of social life. Poetry is full of emotion and imagination. Poetry language has the characteristics of conciseness, image, harmonious tone and distinct rhythm. In form, poetry is not based on sentences, but on behavior, and its branches are mainly based on rhythm rather than meaning.
The rhythm of poetry must conform to the national characteristics of language. Please speak Greek and Latin; The difference of vowel length is obvious, so both ancient Greek poetry and Latin poetry form rhythm by the regular alternation of vowel length. There are short squares, short squares, long and short squares. Long and short spaces, etc.
Homer's epics "Heriat" and "Odyssey" are composed of five long and short bars and one long and short bar, which are called six-step verse. Ancient Sanskrit poetry mainly relies on long and short cases to form rhythm. German, English and Russian have obvious differences in pronunciation, so poetry forms a rhythm with regular alternation of light and heavy cases, such as light and heavy cases.