What is poetry?

Poetry: also known as poetry, is a literary genre with certain rhythm and rhythm. It uses highly concise language to vividly express the author's rich emotions and reflect social life. Poetry is the ancestor of literature and the root of art? Poets, who feel their situation, describe their hearts, express their feelings and perform art? (For the language, see Zhao Que's Preface to 300 Poems without Complaints). Poetry is a literary genre that expounds the soul, and poets need to master mature artistic skills and express social life and human spiritual world with concise language, rich emotions and rich images according to the requirements of certain syllables, tones and rhythms. Confucius believes that poetry has four functions: arousing, observing, gathering and telling. Lu Ji thinks: Poetry is beautiful because of love? . In ancient China, unhappy people were called poems and happy people were called songs. In addition, The Book of Songs is also the original name of China's ancient literary work The Book of Songs (The Book of Songs began in the Western Han Dynasty).

The definition of different schools

Realistic poetics holds that poetry is the reflection of real life in the poet's mind. Only real life is the source of poetry and all arts. Poets are singers of life, and poetry is the singing of life.

Romantic poetics holds that the poet is an emotion, and the emotion in the poet's heart is projected into the world, and everything in the world will be poetic. Therefore, poetry should be the self-expression of the poet, the direct expression of the poet's feelings, and the call of the poet's soul to the ideal world.

Formalist poetics holds that poetry is only a meaningful language art form.

Emotion of poetry

1. The authenticity of feelings

The so-called truth means not telling lies.

Poetry is always willing to pour out the joys and sorrows hidden in its own chest. Sleek and sophisticated should not be the characteristic of poetry.

The truth of feelings has a wide range. Besides poets, the feelings of task images in poems must also be true.

2. Emotional independence

True feelings are always specific and unique. It is independence, not lack of personality. Emotional independence is the embodiment and extension of emotional authenticity, and it is the external and symbol of sensibility. Emotional independence connects poetry with the reader's mind and makes the image of lyric hero close to the reader. Emotional independence is manifested in being good at discovering? Different? Can say what people say; Longer than discovery? Different? Good words are hard to say.

Imagery in poetry

It is also the basic law of art to reflect social life through artistic images. Poetry sings the divine fire, but also vividly sings the life. In most poems, the main image is the image of the lyric hero. In addition to lyrical heroic images, poems generally have unique landscape images.

The idea of poetry

Poetry should be full of philosophy.

Should the ideological connotation of poetry surpass the times? Average score of thoughts? , above the times? Hazy Mars? I have a deeper understanding of life and a deeper evaluation of the times. The thought of poetry is philosophical, which is different from philosophical thought: a. The thought of poetry is the crystallization of emotion. B. the idea of poetry is the crystallization of an image. The idea of poetry is the crystallization of witty language.