06-22-2019, 01:14 AM
Prose is a form. There is form and there is style. There are degrees and levels of style. How much style, what style. What is style. Heightened language at least is an attempt to excite affect, any affect. So there's the personal reaction, and there's the value of that reaction in connection with the stimulus. That's that. If you want to analyze in more than a direct bodily way and define things critically, aesthetically, and truly heightened, you have to trace value judgments and posit values and define value all at once. You define and redefine as you go, and you're holding on to established things, propping yourself up by use of them, taking them for granted or as merely useful or not so useful props. You choose or you improvise or both.
A critic can draw out something hidden. And a critic can describe an essence that wasn't put into the thing to begin with; and putting that into it can present it with new value. Album reveiwers are particularly good at that.
Whatever form used is important to being poetic. Even prose. What's prosaic has no need for form other than as a vehicle. Form and what's poetic are inseparable. That is what heightens language. As objects, poem and prose are prosaic. As poetry they are poetic. Heightened language as a term is prosaic. The result of heightened langauge is a poem. As for students of prosody, unless they're young and attractive, they are irrelevant. Just read and write and whatever happens happens. Leave it to the critics to define terms by terms that need to be defined and defined and defined. The prosaic is this. Poetry is writing and reading poetry.
In a realm of paranoia that the internet Identifies Me With, I usually feel like everyone's the same person. I feel the same when I close my eyes in a restaurant.
And in answer to your question: prose is what it is, you know what prose looks like. Poetry can be prose or verse or anything poetic. If you want to keep it to only written or spoken words, then do.
A critic can draw out something hidden. And a critic can describe an essence that wasn't put into the thing to begin with; and putting that into it can present it with new value. Album reveiwers are particularly good at that.
Whatever form used is important to being poetic. Even prose. What's prosaic has no need for form other than as a vehicle. Form and what's poetic are inseparable. That is what heightens language. As objects, poem and prose are prosaic. As poetry they are poetic. Heightened language as a term is prosaic. The result of heightened langauge is a poem. As for students of prosody, unless they're young and attractive, they are irrelevant. Just read and write and whatever happens happens. Leave it to the critics to define terms by terms that need to be defined and defined and defined. The prosaic is this. Poetry is writing and reading poetry.
In a realm of paranoia that the internet Identifies Me With, I usually feel like everyone's the same person. I feel the same when I close my eyes in a restaurant.
And in answer to your question: prose is what it is, you know what prose looks like. Poetry can be prose or verse or anything poetic. If you want to keep it to only written or spoken words, then do.