Historical Usages of The Term shi
With the above caveat, shi has sometimes been used in a contrasting sense to other Chinese terms, sometimes more or less synonymous, for poetry, for example by Burton Watson, who sees a three part division of Chinese poetic literature, into "three important forms:" shi, fu, and ci. Generally, however, individual poems are not classified as being a shi poem, but rather as "Fields and Gardens" poem and/or "Five-character Four-line "Curtailed" Poems" (jueju), and so on.
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