(04-09-2012, 12:15 PM)Heslopian Wrote: I don't think prose and poetry cover the same game, so comparing the coverage seems a bit pointless to me.Jack, sorry to say, I couldn't disagree with you more on that... though I think Pavlova has the comparison arse-about. The highlights package to me is more like the novel -- sure, it's shorter and I can see how she's made the simplistic assumption that short means less information, but prose is a whole bunch of high points linked together by lots and lots of commentary and explanation, with the pundits making lines all over the screen. A poem is more like the full game, because it has lots of opportunity to wander off and make a cup of tea, come back, examine the way the teams are moving at your leisure until that wonderful excitement of the goal or brilliant save. Even a 0-0 draw lets you take something away.
Poems and prose are absolutely the same game, they're just presented in different ways. You will get the same information from a poem as a novel, but a poem gives you more time for independent thought.
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