compare, contrast

[novapsyche]

To those who ask "What is poetry?": you might as well be asking, "What is a woman?"

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[pstscrpt.livejournal.com]

Prose was why I said form and not style. And song lyrics are poetry, aren't they?

[novapsyche.livejournal.com]

Songs may be verse, but not all poetry is verse.

Someone in poetryslamming recently mentioned an author who wrote a novel in blank verse.

And then you get into gray areas like prose poetry.

And the difference and similarities between lyric and narrative poetry. And the contrast against prose.

[pstscrpt.livejournal.com]

Would prose poetry be something like H.P. Lovecraft?

[novapsyche.livejournal.com]

I hate to say this, but even at this late date I have not read any Lovecraft. I know, I know: stone me.

"The Colonel" by Carolyn Forche is probably the most striking prose poem I've ever encountered.

[pstscrpt.livejournal.com]

I've only ever managed to force myself through a paragraph or two of Lovecraft here and there. It's structured like prose, but it has the usual poetry quality of having to read it several times to fight through the imagery and figure out what it's actually saying.

As for "The Colonel", it just strikes me as very poor prose.

[novapsyche.livejournal.com]

Tough audience!

[blackwinterbyrd.livejournal.com]

Mervyn Peake?

[novapsyche.livejournal.com]

I'd never heard of Peake. I'd be very interested in his Rhyme Without Reason.