05-10-2014, 05:42 PM
(05-10-2014, 04:43 PM)billy Wrote: i'm not sure i'm getting you correctly, are you asking what the difference is between poetry and prose via presentation.
an easy answer is; a poem reads like a poem and prose reads like prose. then they have sex and no one knows which is which. i think it's one of the unexplainable phenomenons that everyone has a different answer to. this may sound off the wall but i'd read LOTR.
Hey billy,
I'm not asking that unanswerable question!
Apologies, being clearer,
I trying to better understand the idea of presentation.
I've read that poetry should always seek to present scenes and ideas in such a way that engages the reader to create or imagine them for themselves.
Whereas description invokes a more passive absorption of the subject.
The quote that clicked the question is from an essay by ezra pound on the "don'ts of poetry".
"When Shakespeare talks of the ‘Dawn in russet mantle clad’ he presents something which the painter does not present. There is in this line of his nothing that one can call description; he presents"
Ezra Pound's "don'ts in poetry"
I remember reading something previously (I cant for the life of me remember where) that emphasized the need to present as opposed to describe.
Who knows, I could just be confusing myself.