What does the Poisson bracket actually mean?

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Context (pg-321):

We have a manifold with an anti symmetric metric tensor/sympletic form $S$ with components in a basis $S_{ab}$ satisfying the property that

$$dS=0$$

Where $d$ is the exterior derivative.

The components of the inverse of metric tensor in the same basis is given as $S^{ab}$


Question :

In page-322 , the following equation is given as the Poisson bracket of two scalar field:

$$ \{\Phi, \Psi \} = - \frac12 S^{ab} \nabla_a \Phi \nabla_b \Psi$$

What does the above expression mean actually? Could perhaps a picture be provided to explain it?