differentiate prose from poetry?

Question

differentiate prose from poetry?

define literature...???

why is it important to study literature?

Answer 1

prose is continuous text like what you would read in a book or article..

poetry is words arranged in stanzas, usually with some form of pattern, rhyme scheme, set number of syllables per line etc.



the term "literature" generally defines any written text, whether it be a book, pamphlet, anything..



in terms of studying literature you would probably expect to study a range of poetry, plays, novels from a range of cultures, eras and styles.

Answer 2

Okay prose is poetry that doesn't rhymen...



Literature is a BODY of Prose or Poetry.



The importance of anything, is determined by the individual.

Personally Literature isn't important to ME at all. However, Musicial theory, which is a SNORE for most people is VERY important... to me.

Answer 3

Prose is regular narrative writing while poetry is writing with ntense emotion and has not particular style to it prose is basically standard intro body conclusion i onno what else to tell you.





Literature is the study of the progression of the human mind through writing.



The study of words increases a person's intelligence,knowledge, and imagination

Answer 4

I must respectfully disagree with Garwy's assessment of prose and poetry. He is making a perhaps overly exacting semantic distinction based on one unique exception, the sub-genre of the prose poem, but that doesn't necessarily invalidate making distinctions between the two major genres of prose and poetry. In fact, my copy of the Concise Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms actually states as part of its definition of verse, "poetry, as distinct from prose." To me, it would be like trying to say there are no differences between the United States and Britain because they have a common history and language. But by only looking at the exceptions to their respective uniqueness, we fail to see the bigger picture. I do agree there is a point where the distinction between prose and poetry can get hazy, i.e., what really is the difference between a short short story (a sub-genre that Irving Howe had argued was distinct from "normal" short stories) versus a prose poem? If I were drawing a Venn Diagram of where the genres met, I might put the prose poem and the short short story in the intersecting space. Even then, I don't think it would be unreasonable to argue that a prose poem still constitutes poetry while a short short story still constitutes prose. Even if a prose poem lacks verse lines, there is a heightened level of sustained attention to the relationships of words insofar as meaning and sound within a self-contained structure that prose does not require at the same qualitative level. Admittedly, it's tangled mess, when one tries to split hairs at this level, but if I were to ask a publisher, librarian, or academic to separate a pile of books into poetry or prose, I don't think there would be as much equivocating. But by and large to the general reading public, prose as a genre covers those literary means of expression such as fiction and nonfiction while poetry covers a huge array of forms and means of expression that typically (though not always) come in verse lines. Yes, not all poetry comes in verse form, but critics and academics have argued distinctions between poetry and prose based on more subjective and elusive qualities of "poetic merit" that I mentioned previously. It's a perfectly fair distinction to make between prose and poetry, whether or not the question was precipitated by a teacher (I have no context for your question to assume so). It's a comparison that deserves the benefit of the doubt.

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