(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.
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. "
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Classification of poetry
(1) nostalgic poems
Generally, I miss people and things in ancient times. Poetry about history often distorts historical facts and reality, or regrets personal experience or criticizes social reality.
(2) Poems about objects
Characteristics of object-chanting poems: the content takes a certain object as the description object, and describes it by grasping some of its characteristics. Ideologically, it is often to express one's wishes. From things to people, from reality to nothingness, write spiritual character. Commonly used metaphor, symbol, personification and contrast.
(3) Landscape pastoral poetry
Xie Lingyun created landscape poetry, and Tao Yuanming created pastoral poetry in the Eastern Jin Dynasty. In the Tang Dynasty, the school of landscape pastoral poetry represented by Wang Wei and Meng Haoran appeared.