Is the Book of Songs the same as poetry?

It's different. The Book of Songs is the first collection of poems in ancient China. It collects poems of * * * 3 1 1 from the early Western Zhou Dynasty to the middle of the spring and autumn period in the 6th century BC, among which 6 poems are Sheng poems, that is, six poems are called Six Sheng Poems (Nanxun and Baihua).

Poetry is a literary genre, which refers to all kinds of poetry. According to the expression of the content of the work, it can be divided into narrative poems and lyric poems. According to the phonological rhythm and structural form of the language of the works, they can be divided into metrical poems, free poems and prose poems.