诗话

Traditional form:

詩話

Pinyin (reading):

shīhuà

Definitions:

• notes on poetry, an essay genre consisting of informal commentary on poems and poets and their lives (old)
• a genre of narrative literature interspersing prose with poetry, popular in the Tang and Song dynasties

Characters:

• 诗 - poetry; poem, verse, ode
• 话 - talk, speech; language, dialect

Traditional characters:

• 詩 - poetry; poem, verse, ode
• 話 - talk, speech; language, dialect