Poetry and prose are the two earliest styles.
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Poetry is a kind of literary genre that expresses feelings and aspirations. It is a literary genre with a certain rhythm and rhythm, which vividly expresses the author's rich emotions in highly concise language and reflects social life intensively.
The Preface to Mao's Poems records: "A poet is also a place of ambition. Be ambitious in your heart and speak as a poem. " Yan Yu's Poems on Canglang in the Southern Song Dynasty says, "Poets chant temperament". There is only one art expressed in words: poetry. In 222, the Chinese Poetry Society named Qingyuan the first "City of Ecological Poetry in China" in China.
Poetry is full of the author's thoughts, feelings and rich imagination. The language is concise and vivid, with distinct rhythm, harmonious rhyme, rich in musical beauty, and the sentences are generally arranged in branches, paying attention to the beauty of structure and form.
He Qifang, a modern Chinese poet and literary critic, once said: "Poetry is a literary style that reflects social life most intensively. It is full of rich imagination and feelings, often expressed in a direct lyrical way, and its language is different from that of prose in terms of refinement and harmony, especially in terms of distinct rhythm."
This definition summarizes several basic characteristics of poetry: first, it reflects life in a highly concentrated and general way; Second, lyrical expression, full of rich thoughts and feelings; Third, rich imagination, association and fantasy; Fourth, language has musical beauty.
Its characteristic is that the content of poetry is the most concentrated reflection of social life. Poetry is rich in emotion and imagination. The language of poetry has the characteristics of conciseness, image, harmonious tone and distinct rhythm.
in form, poetry is not based on sentences, but on actions, and its branches are mainly based on rhythm rather than meaning.
prose, Chinese vocabulary, pinyin is s m 4 n w é n. A finger is full of literary talent; Two-finger Jewish writing; Three-finger style name. With the development of the times, the concept of prose has changed from broad to narrow, and it has been influenced by western culture.