09-13-2016, 08:05 AM
I got confused reading Northrop Frye's Anatomy of Criticism once because he lumped novels with plays with poems -- called the lot Poetry. That's sort of how I understand all those arts now: novels and plays and, ofc, poems, are all Poems, just with different voices, different purposes, and different devices. The only stuff that's truly Prose is technical or journalistic stuff: perhaps the same voices, pehaps the same devices, but with the purpose all, er, technical.