谁能给我一个英文的诗歌的含义?急用!

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谁能给我一个英文的诗歌的含义?急用!
这个...麻烦了`不是那个意思`是用英语解释诗歌.只解释诗歌这两个字`我写论文,但是实在翻译不出来标准的诗歌的定义.格式是这样的,诗歌:@#%#$%^$%^%$^`````

答案

诗歌（poem）：a composition written in metrical feet forming rhythmical lines
或者
诗歌(poem)：1.A metrical composition; a composition in verse written in certain measures,whether in blank verse or in rhyme,and characterized by imagination and poetic diction; -- contradistinguished from prose; as,the poems of Homer or of Milton.
2.A composition,not in verse,of which the language is
highly imaginative or impassioned; as,a prose poem; the
poems of Ossian.