Poetry is a literary genre with a certain rhythm and rhythm, which expresses the author's rich emotions in highly concise language and reflects social life in a concentrated way.
2. The characteristics of poetry
(1) The content of poetry is the most concentrated reflection of social life.
(2) Poetry is full of emotion and imagination.
(3) The poetic language is characterized by conciseness, image, harmonious tone and distinct rhythm.
(4) In form, poetry is not based on sentences, but on behavior, and its branches are mainly based on rhythm, not meaning.
Step 3 classify
According to the classification of melody, it can be divided into two categories: ancient poetry and modern poetry. Classical poetry and modern poetry are concepts formed in the Tang Dynasty, which are divided from the perspective of poetic rhythm.
According to the content classification, it can be divided into narrative poems, lyric poems, farewell poems, frontier poems, pastoral poems, nostalgic poems (historical poems), object poems, mourning poems and allegorical poems.