本文是关于文学形式和话语理论的。关于亚里士多德的论文，见《诗学》（亚里士多德）。有关其他用途，请参见诗学（消歧）。诗学是关于文学形式和文学话语的理论。它可以具体地指诗歌理论，尽管有些发言者使用这个词的范围如此广泛，以致于表示“理论”本身的概念。
This article is about the theory of literary forms and discourse. For the treatise by Aristotle, see Poetics (Aristotle). For other uses, see Poetics (disambiguation).Poetics is the theory of literary forms and literary discourse. It may refer specifically to the theory of poetry, although some speakers use the term so broadly as to denote the concept of "theory" itself