Poetry and prose :
-the distinction between poetry and prose seems obvious at firt glance
-it i showever, complec and debatable subject
-one difference between these two forms which is frequently mentioned has to do with language or dictions;
Poetry is commnonly associated with :
Images – are words, which evoc feelings or mentalimages
-concrete descriptive phrases
-the figurative language of similes and metaphors
-the speacial „poetic diction“ (finny tribe – fish, feathered floc - birds)
-prose is associated with plain, straight forward statements, notaffected by imagery, and close to everyday or colloquial speech.
-though it is possible to agree with the statment that the language of poetry is more consciously chosen, with more attention to precision and suggestiveness than the language of common speech,
-there is not always a very sharp dividing line.
Shakespeare´s sonnets or Keat sodes are indeed rich lyimagistic, but there are lines which seem hardly .
-the refined and elevated „poetic diction“ was cutivated only at certain periods (eigtheenth century)and it was characteristic mainly of certain literarytypes, such as the heroicepic and the pastoral
-modern poets, and especially postomodern ones, may quit econsciously choose colloquial and even slangy diction
-on the other hand there are prose passages which are extremly ornate and figurative
-even in more simple, utilitarian prose- JohnLocke – explanatory similes and metaphors are used from time to time for emphasis
Any difference in language would be then only one of degree
-the same can be said about another commonly held as sumpiton, i.e. that meter and rhythm distinguish prose from poetry
-on the one hand, meter is not characteristic to all poetry
-and although poetry indeed tends to have a strongly marked rhythm, certain poems, as e.g. written in freeverse, have what might almost be considered prose rhythms.
-on the other hand, prose may have such strongly marked rhythm, as in the incantatory passages of the King James Bible or some of Ahabs speeches in Moby – Dick that it can be scanned .
-another possible distinction between poetry and prose seems at first glance to be too obvious to beworth mentioning.
-we have to say that the rist he intermediate form of prose poetry, in whichwords are arranged as if they made up a prose paragraph but have the ponounced rhythm of poetry
-on the whole, however, it seems fair to say that poetry and prose simply look quite diferent on the printed page
-although this may sound like a very sperficial distinction, it suggests a more fundamental point.
-itexpressesmeaning in a more concise and concentratedfashionthan prose, usingmany more ofthepossiblitiesofverbal art.
-to achievesuchconcentrationitusesvariousdevices, allusions, multipleconnotations, etc.,,,,
THE COMPOSITION OF POETRY
-the most important feature of poetry is its graphical appearance
-while prose can be , on the whole „divided into sentences, paragraphs and chapters.
-poetry is divided intoline and stanzas, lengt hierpoetical Works into books or cantos..
-absence of narrator so the rthan the poet himself
-absence of dialogues
THE COMPOSITION OF POETRY PROSODY
-the study of the principles of verse structure
-it is the poetic pattern of meter, rhyme, and stanza
The basic rhythmical unit in a poemis a line – the line can be divided into smaller units – syllables (long&short or stressed and unstressed)
-there are pauses between individual syllables
-usually we find the one stressed syllable forms a combination with one or two unstressed syllables and several such combinations in a line thus form a more or less regular pattern called metrical norm or measure or meter.
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