06-23-2019, 05:50 AM
When it comes to form I was thinking not of specific forms like the sonnet but of the form of all poetyry except when poetry becomes a novel or a short story. I was thinking soecifically of how it functions eg, as a book of poems or as a single poem posted in a magazine or today as poems are presented on forums or ezines. They are all ( there are exceptions) presented as short, usually no more than a page or at most two or three. So that is their form, whether free verse or whatever. And I think 'the medium is the message' to an extent. But we could argue till the cows come home about poetry/prose. Many novelists saturate their novels with poetic devices and I often, as you have above, noticed a paragrapth in a novel that could be taken out and presented as a poem. Kingsley Amis is one such author, his novels abound in poetic writing.