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You can write prose poetry, but you can't write poetry prose. Well, maybe poetic prose. Wow, that sounded confusing.

Prose poetry is blank verse--no rhyme scheme or meter. I write prose poetry because I want to play with the appearance of a piece. Would a vignette look better arranged in standard indented paragraphs, or do I want to play with capitalization, placement, and other fun stuff?

Prose is what I'm writing now. You can make it poetic--use metaphors, alliteration, personification, and other poetic devices. But mostly people use the word "prose" to refer to regular writing, like newspaper articles or short stories. It does have its own artistic merit, but it usually looks very different than poetry.

In a nutshell: poetry can encompass prose, but prose, by its definition, does not encompass poetry.

2006-11-10 18:32:00 · answer #1 · answered by The Clumsy Ninja 2 · 0 0

Isn't poetry the type of writing and prose a type of poetry technique? I'm not sure, it may not be.

2006-11-10 14:38:48 · answer #2 · answered by K_Gab 2 · 0 0

Do you mean prose and poetry? Poetry is just that, poetry. Prose is not poetry, it's writing that is not verse.

2006-11-10 14:17:15 · answer #3 · answered by luna 5 · 0 0

prose is the text tht is writtten and poetry is poem

2006-11-10 14:24:53 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

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2006-11-10 14:19:51 · answer #5 · answered by ruth4526 7 · 0 0

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