诗歌是语言的最高艺术。很长时期以来,人们普遍认为诗歌应该使用一种不同于散文的特殊语言,它应该具有一种比散文语言更加高贵、庄重、优美的风格。无论我国古典诗歌还是西方古典主义诗歌都受到这种看法的深刻影响。在这样一种认识前提下,人们对词汇也做了高雅和庸俗、精致和粗鄙、庄重和轻佻的区别:只有那些庄重典雅的词汇才能入诗,而那 Poetry is the highest art of language. Since a long period of time, people generally think that poetry should use a special language different from prose, and it should have a nobler, solemn and graceful style than prose. Both our classical poetry and Western classical poetry are deeply influenced by this view. Under such a premise, people also made the distinction between elegance and vulgarity, sophistication and vulgarity, solemnity and frivolity: only those solemn and elegant words can enter the poem, and that