What is the difference between Chinese and western definitions of poetry?

Poetry is regarded as the crystallization and highest embodiment of a national culture, and it is also the result of the precipitation of the times, history and culture. There are great differences between Chinese and western poetry, which respectively reflect the comprehensive achievements of Chinese and western culture, art, aesthetics and literary theory. The comparison between Chinese and Western poems is not only the objective need of cultural exchange, but also the subjective requirement of studying and developing China's poems.

China's poems have always attracted the attention of the world. Refined language and beautiful artistic conception are its symbolic features. Western poetry is equally dazzling. We can find many immortal works from a lot of poems. There are many differences between Chinese and western poems in style, content and structure, but it is not difficult to find the inextricable internal relations between them.