Reality in poetry

[Brownlie]

I guess the novel format can better simulate reality, and we could look at many theories to try and explain this phenomenon. I.e. endless enumerations with items that we glaze over and take for evidence of the real. Yet, the fiction/non-fiction distinction may be connected to the way books are sold or something. I guess at some point poetry began to be seen as a form of self expression, though I don't think that was always the case. So, that self expression ideology  may confuse some readers of poetry. At some point, I may result to solipsist argument here.