What is poetry? What are the characteristics of poetry?

Poetry is a great style. It requires a highly concentrated summary and reflection of social life, full of rich thoughts, feelings and imagination, concise and vivid language, and has a certain rhythm. Generally speaking, it first appeared in various literary genres. Poetry is divided into narrative poetry and lyric poetry according to whether there is a story or not; According to whether the language has meter or not, it can be divided into meter poems and free poems. According to whether there is rhyme or not, there are rhyming poems and blank poems. Poetry in modern Chinese is interpreted as a literary genre of lyrical expression. Mao's "Preface to Poetry" said: "Poets are ambitious. Have ambition in your heart and speak like a poem. " Song Yan's Poems on Canglang said: "Poets also chant temperament". In ancient China, unhappy people were called poems and happy people were called songs. In modern times, they are collectively called poetry. There is only one art expressed in words: poetry. Characteristics of poetry

1. Branch arrangement

Full of true feelings

3. Novel ideas

4. Associative nature

Free jump

brief and to the point

7. Harmonious rhythm

8. Vivid image

9. Beautiful artistic conception

10. Reality and surplus coexist