What's the diffrence between poetry and delineated prose?

[Seraphim]

Prose relays information, it is meant to be understood. It is the transfer of an idea from one mind to another.

Poetry relays epiphany, it is meant to be felt.  It is the transfer of an experience from one soul to another.

This is what it is to me anyway.

Ok. Let's examine this. You are saying:

Prose relays information only. It cannot provide the reader with an epiphany or experience. It cannot affect the reader so strongly they feel it deeply (how I interpreted your 'soul' reference - not as a metaphysical part of us which we cannot prove exists). It does not make a reader feel emotion, only provides them with data.

Poetry, on the other hand provides no information. It is not meant to transfer a thought or idea (which I take an epiphany to be), it only transfers emotion and experiences.

So how does, for example, epic poems such as the The Odyssey and The Iliad fit into this definition? They are essentially stories, providing information. I can't say they touched or transferred anything to my soul, no epiphanies there that I picked up, only a good story written in a poetic form. One argues that the function of poetry was that one could more easily remember the story when it was put to meter and rhyme. What about poems designed as riddles, to be thought about and solved?

I'd also say that I have had far prose than poetry which affected me so deeply as to make demonstrate emotion. Actually, by your definition, I've only read a handful of poetry in 63 years. All the rest were prose.

I would say that poetry and prose both were capable of conveying thoughts, facts, emotion - could transfer experience or feeling - with equal ease, and that there many examples of both genre which do one, the other, or both simultaneously. So this mutual ability of both genre is a similarity, not a difference.

I'm looking for the difference...