The six basic elements of poetry are novelty, elegance, emotion, novelty, conciseness and sense of music.

These six basic elements can also be said to be the essence of poetry.

The new situation means that a poem must have an artistic conception, and this artistic conception must be novel. If we repeat the artistic conception of predecessors, it is not an original poem. As far as artistic conception is concerned, no matter how big the time and space span is, no matter how many generations of poets have experienced, there is only the first kind, and there is no second kind.

-elegance means that the ideological connotation of poetry is elegant and beautiful. Elegance is the embodiment of human beauty and personality beauty. Poetry is personality. The elegance of poetry should be "four noes": don't praise evil, don't publicize violence, don't desire themselves, and don't worry.

Meaning and elegance can be repeated, but time and space, language and artistic conception have all changed. For example, the content of "kindness", "love" and "hate" is eternal, and the connotation has not changed, but the form and angle have definitely changed.

-Emotion is to pour the author's true feelings into poetry creation. Because of different emotions, different life situations, different experiences, different education levels and different hobbies, people may have different understandings of the same thing, the same person and the same thing, which makes the world diverse and rich, and also makes poetry present a colorful state.

-Novelty means that poetry creation must be the author's own original language. Instead of borrowing directly, it is better to use the language of our predecessors.

-Conciseness refers to the high generalization, concentration, concentration, refinement and essence of poetic language. Poetic language generally adopts short sentences with distinct rhythm instead of long sentences, and uses function words and conjunctions with caution.

-Musical sense means that poetic language must be musical. Let readers feel the "inner rhyme", that is, the ups and downs and joys and sorrows of emotional flow or fluctuation, and at the same time feel the cadence of Chinese characters, that is, the rhyme at the end of sentences and the level of metrical poems.

Compared with other literary genres, what really distinguishes them from other literary genres is concise language and musical sense. Because beautiful ideological connotation, attractive artistic conception, rich emotion and novel language can also be found in prose and other literary genres. However, these six basic elements must be considered in writing and appreciating a poem.

These six basic elements are not isolated, but an interrelated whole. A good artistic conception can often reach a high level and a beautiful scene, which are closely related to the beautiful ideological connotation, and the emotions generated on the basis of a beautiful realm, a beautiful scene and a beautiful thought are bound to be beautiful.

Among the six basic elements, language accounts for three, namely novel language, concise language and musical sense. To separate it from different angles is to highlight the importance of its language, not only to say a lot, but also the success or failure of language determines the success or failure of poetry. In other words, these two elements are also closely related, and creative appreciation should be placed in the same position. The language expression angle is novel, but it is wordy and procrastinating, and it is still not a poetic language.

The language with musical sense is the language of poetry, which is unique to the style of poetry. Musical sense and conciseness of poetic language are mutual motivation and mutual growth. Musical sense helps conciseness, and conciseness helps musicality. Wind and fire help each other, wind helps fire, and fire borrows wind. Simple language can make music sound like a stone; I felt the clank of iron again and lamented the conciseness of language.

Generally, the elements of poetry are studied and the "image" is included. Come to think of it, all art is a shaped image or sound. Besides, poetry has its own image in "context" and language. Image is only the carrier of the essence of poetry, and poets use images to convey emotions. Therefore, image belongs to the "coat" of poetry rather than the essential element of poetry. "Thinking in images" refers to the creative method, which does not belong to the elements of poetry.

Some commentators regard "image" as one of the elements of poetry and think that "image is one of the most essential provisions of poetry art" "Image" actually refers to "image", that is, the "object image" of the poet's feelings, which is the same as the "image" mentioned in the previous paragraph. Therefore, it cannot be an element of poetry. Image or "image" is just a means, not an essence, for a poet to "speak" and express his thoughts and feelings with the help of foreign objects. ?

Some people attribute "rhyme" and "taste" to the elements of poetry. "Rhyme" refers to "lasting appeal" and "taste" refers to "poetry". These two concepts still belong to the category of appreciation rather than creation. Both "rhyme" and "taste" are contained in the artistic conception, scene, realm, words and feelings created by the poet. Rhyme and "taste" are often felt by the appreciator in the process of tasting and chewing, but the poet is often unaware of it.

Some people think that the branch of poetry is an element of poetry. In fact, this refers to the form of style, not the essence, just like prose, novel and drama. Besides, some poems are not arranged in rows. If you recite a poem, you can't see the arrangement of "branches". The arrangement of "branches" is only the form of written or printed text.

Some people separate "rhyme" from "rhyme" as two of the three major elements of poetry (another is "taste"). Here, "rhyme" refers to the rhyme at the end of a sentence, and "fa" refers to the level tone in a metrical poem. "Rhyme" and "Rhyme" belong to the category of music and should not be separated.

Some even incorporate many rhetorical devices such as metaphor, exaggeration and personification into poetry elements, confusing the essence of poetry with the method of writing poetry, and lacking scientific analysis and grasp.

Understanding and grasping the six basic elements of poetry is the basis of creating and appreciating poetry. Without this foundation, it is difficult to talk about the creation and appreciation of poetry.