06-21-2019, 10:37 PM
If you gather all the splinter connotations of the word 'poetry', it's a value effect that's overseeing the construction. You move from prosaic to heightened language by valuing the language itself. You can separate individual definitions of 'prosaic' and have prose as prose and prose as less or not at all heightened language and anything, not only words, that is flat or dull or just not valuable to such a degree in affect. This I'm writing now is prosaic. It's prose. It's not poetry, though whether or not it's poetic is someone's value judgment. And to maintain any valid value judgment, you have to do a lot of examining and comparing of what is mostly consensus judgment of similar and different things, the different being more difficult. Your poetry can add to the dimensions of value, as can your prosaic or poetic critique of value. What is prosaic and what is poetic? The form is never separate from poetic. With prosaic, it's not so important.