Interpretation...is it valid critique?

[ChristopherSea]

My favorite example of trying to pass off
interpretation as critique is when some idiot
complains that a piece of writing is too much
like prose to be a poem.

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i have said "this is more like prose that poetry" before now so i'll put my hat on that one, not that i agree with you of course

The problem with that critique is that there is a prose poetry genera. However, it is not all narrative. It usually has very descriptive language and strong metaphor. Some that I have read lacks structure and meter like prose, but the imagery and word choices are poetic. Don't know if this is allowed, so just delete the link if you need to. Folks can look it up in wikipedia themselves.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prose_poetry