09-06-2014, 08:02 AM
Oh good, another chance to ramble senselessly and tangentially...what fun!
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The difference between poetry and prose is the intent of the writer...if they are good enough to be aware of such
Prose with randomly truncated lines is of course the description of Prose-poetry for the rest. There is also the smell test, but most people don't have a nose for literature. It's like music, unmusical people can generally not distinguish anything more than just basic chord progressions. They might as well be deaf when it comes to recognizing 7th's, sustained, diminished chords, et. al... They are only able to digest the most fundamental aspects. A musician will hear all these other things that most people don't, and so they will have a richer appreciation of more complex music. It is like the difference between crayons and oil paints, and most people read and write in crayons. In the past we made people go to such things as art appreciation, or music appreciation, and it was required, not an elective. At some point in time we became tooo utilitarian (I blame it on the modernist) for such things to be regarded as valuable since "...you don't need them for/to get a job, so what's the point?" It's like someone standing in front of an impressionistic painting and saying "I don't get it, why is everything so fuzzy"? If you say it's light, he will be no further along than before. The reason is that appreciation of art does not come quickly, unless of course you are preforming it. I didn't like opera until I was in an opera. After that I loved opera, especially Mozart. I sang the count in the "Marriage of Figaro", which had these five or six person choruses where everyone is singing at the same time, and they are singing something different from everybody else, but if you take it in as a whole it somehow becomes one song. It is even more impressive when you see it from the inside, that is when singing a part. You can see how everyone's part is intertwined in an overwhelming way. It was very eye opening for me. The point? If one had an accurate definition of prose-poetry, most people wouldn't have the background, or awareness to understand the definition, those who can understand the definition don't need one. As with any art form, there is no shortcut. Of course many people would take as true a definition that said,
"To be prose-poetry it must at least contain 25% of known poetic tropes and truncate the line when an optimal phrase, within a sentence, concludes."
Go forth and write "prose-poetry"! "OH-man!"
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"Are there any writers whom you like more for their language"
Two Science Fiction writers who are as good as the best writers in any other genre: Terry Goodkind, and J.V. Jones.
Dale
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The difference between poetry and prose is the intent of the writer...if they are good enough to be aware of such
Prose with randomly truncated lines is of course the description of Prose-poetry for the rest. There is also the smell test, but most people don't have a nose for literature. It's like music, unmusical people can generally not distinguish anything more than just basic chord progressions. They might as well be deaf when it comes to recognizing 7th's, sustained, diminished chords, et. al... They are only able to digest the most fundamental aspects. A musician will hear all these other things that most people don't, and so they will have a richer appreciation of more complex music. It is like the difference between crayons and oil paints, and most people read and write in crayons. In the past we made people go to such things as art appreciation, or music appreciation, and it was required, not an elective. At some point in time we became tooo utilitarian (I blame it on the modernist) for such things to be regarded as valuable since "...you don't need them for/to get a job, so what's the point?" It's like someone standing in front of an impressionistic painting and saying "I don't get it, why is everything so fuzzy"? If you say it's light, he will be no further along than before. The reason is that appreciation of art does not come quickly, unless of course you are preforming it. I didn't like opera until I was in an opera. After that I loved opera, especially Mozart. I sang the count in the "Marriage of Figaro", which had these five or six person choruses where everyone is singing at the same time, and they are singing something different from everybody else, but if you take it in as a whole it somehow becomes one song. It is even more impressive when you see it from the inside, that is when singing a part. You can see how everyone's part is intertwined in an overwhelming way. It was very eye opening for me. The point? If one had an accurate definition of prose-poetry, most people wouldn't have the background, or awareness to understand the definition, those who can understand the definition don't need one. As with any art form, there is no shortcut. Of course many people would take as true a definition that said,
"To be prose-poetry it must at least contain 25% of known poetic tropes and truncate the line when an optimal phrase, within a sentence, concludes."
Go forth and write "prose-poetry"! "OH-man!"
__________________________________________________________
"Are there any writers whom you like more for their language"
Two Science Fiction writers who are as good as the best writers in any other genre: Terry Goodkind, and J.V. Jones.
Dale
How long after picking up the brush, the first masterpiece?
The goal is not to obfuscate that which is clear, but make clear that which isn't.
The goal is not to obfuscate that which is clear, but make clear that which isn't.