09-13-2016, 10:13 AM
(09-13-2016, 08:05 AM)RiverNotch Wrote: 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.Just to pick... where do you classify letters? And does it depend on how the letter is written? I might sort a letter from Dickinson differently than a letter from Cicero (and I only pick him because I'm familiar).
One of my instructors referred to some novels as "poetry", while other (quite famous novels) he simply called "girl's books". I am undecided on this question, so I think I'll find both sides interesting to read here.
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"Or, if a poet writes a poem, then immediately commits suicide (as any decent poet should)..." -- Erthona
"Or, if a poet writes a poem, then immediately commits suicide (as any decent poet should)..." -- Erthona