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Prose-Poetry - What do you think of it?


  • FluorescentFixation
    Sep 9 6:48 PM
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    Any comments about the genre. Some questions to possibly fuel your response:

    Do you like it? Why/why not?
    Do you think it's really poetry? Why/why not?
    Do you write it?
    Have you noticed some overused topics/words in the prose-poetry genre?

    Thanks ^^ Just curious about others opinions on this genre.
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  • Matt Holck
    October 20 ↑
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    << reply to 'Why don't they lean to the left, ever?' by just mercedes

    the status quo is good for people on the top

  • Cynewulf
    October 20 ↑
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    They must all be fascists.

  • Cynewulf
    October 20 ↑
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    As Mr Spock would say.

  • amnouup
    October 28 ↑
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    << reply to 'i honestly find no difference between poetry and prose. I think both are simple ' by Gay-Militant
    I agree

    I agree with you

  • Evenstar
    November 3 ↑
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    Anyway.

    I think that Prose, and free verse, are different, if not because of the format. I've often seen Prose in paragraph form, and free verse with unstructured, or structured, line breaks.

    both are similar in way of metaphors and allusions, creative language, and such.

    The problem, I think, with both of these forms today, is that they're often unfocused, even sloppy sometimes. Free verse and Prose seem to have bad reputations because they are often referred to as "new" or "rebellious" and a "hobby for the young". I've heard it referred to in such terms, and I've also seen and heard it referred to as the opposite.
    A focused, creative mind can make anything in any form seem unique and powerful, can give anything they say a voice. Different forms can also have different meanings, and sometimes, for others, Prose is just the right way to convey expression and words. It would be different if you took a prose poem, and made it free verse or rhyme, it would change the meaning.

    If a person is intelligent about Prose (and writing in general) these days, I don't see why it can not be sophistocated, or classic, even.

    • iceanddiamonds
      November 18 ↑
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      you write as though prose poetry and free verse WANT to be sophisticated, or classic, even, which is often not the case, and not because of anything to do with their lack of meter or line breaks or what have you, but because of an ulterior artistic movement which the authors or said styles align with

      i think you've conflated form (prose poetry or free verse) with movement (postmodernism)

      • arafura
        November 18 ↑
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        I would have said confused rather than conflated... but basically I agree with you!

      • Cynewulf
        November 18 ↑
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        Postsomethingism

        Ah...postmodernism. Even my spellchecker doesn't recognise it as a word! There again, it doesn't recognise spellchecker as a word.

        My favourite definition of the dreaded 'P' word (postmodernism) is by Patricia Waugh (Durham University) ~

        'Postmodernism is the aesthetic spilling over into the moral & the cognitive.'

        I can dig that.

        • arafura
          November 18 ↑
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          I like that Cyney... (particularly the spilling over bit!)

  • ea
    November 20 ↑
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    The Desiderata by Max Erhmann is a good example of prose poetry. He wrote about it, "I should like, if I could, to leave a humble gift -- a bit of chaste prose that had caught up some noble moods." Do you know it? "Go placidly amid the noise and haste..." It was published after his death in the 50s and mistakenly attributed to St. Paul's Church in Baltimore or something weird.

  • cc
    November 28 ↑
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    << reply to 'i honestly find no difference between poetry and prose. I think both are simple ' by Gay-Militant

    I have to agree with your opening points here. Its all expression of the soul and whether you write it or read it one has to admit an appriciation of the writer even if you do not enjoy the content. I write prose on occasion though I tend to write with a rhythm more often. Some subjects can be over written but I think thats just how life goes, it runs in currents and even though we are unconnected in space, we as poets are connected in auras. We can recognise each other when we meet and know what the other person means in word(meet as in read a persons writting). Poets have a special aura in the world whether we write angry or soft -we write. This shows to people we actually do meet in person, they may not know us as poets but they see something about us that is different then themselves.

  • Shadow Anonymised
    November 28 ↑
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    prose poetry is just poetry without line breaks, but not in chapters like novels. then again, i think all prose should be like that.
    prose poetry is this unique thing that no one can define, yet we all know it when we see it... hopefully.

  • Jonathan ROBIN
    November 29 ↑
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    Poetry and Prose

    One path towards an acceptable answer may be found as below

    Because You Asked about the Line Between Prose and Poetry

    Sparrows were feeding in a freezing drizzle
    That while you watched turned to pieces of snow
    Riding a gradient invisible
    From silver aslant to random, white, and slow.

    There came a moment that you couldn’t tell.
    And then they clearly flew instead of fell.

    Howard Nemerov

    That having been said, the moment when unrhymed verse passes the threshhold to become recognized poetry presupposes that the latter retains inherent harmonic qualities. Capitalizing the first letter of each line of an unstructured rant SHOULD NOT be considered prima facie evidence for poetry.

    Many contemporary or 20th century acknowledged prose poem writers enjoyed a classical grounding thus one answer that could be made is "grow through and beyond the rules" See also the equivalence in Music as per Igor Stravinsky's remark ... The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees oneself of the chains that shackle the spirit... the arbitrariness of the constraint only serves to obtain precision of execution."



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