10-04-2013, 11:30 AM
No I don't consider this poem a prose poem. What I'm talking about is when a writer feels compelled to follow a narrative sequence to the detriment of the poem.
If steps: 1, 4, 7, and 8 of the narrative are poetic and the others come across as flat reportage I would say cut them.
Dickinson doesn't come off as prose filler (to say what happened next) and as flat reportage.
If steps: 1, 4, 7, and 8 of the narrative are poetic and the others come across as flat reportage I would say cut them.
Dickinson doesn't come off as prose filler (to say what happened next) and as flat reportage.
The secret of poetry is cruelty.--Jon Anderson