I need help with this.?

Question

Ok I really don't understand this. I am supposed to rewrite this peom in prose form.http://www.cs.rice.edu/~ssiyer/minstrels/poems/188.html Any ideas???

Answer 1

In other words, you're trying to relate the same basic ideas from this poem into a regular writing...as if you were writing a newspaper article about what poems should be, or writing a letter to someone about what you think a poem is, or how one should go about writing a poem.

You'll need to read the poem a few times to get the basic idea of what the poet is saying. Then just reword the poem in your own words, not trying to rhyme, not using the flowering language or imagery that he's using.

It's really a beautiful composition about how a poem should relate a feeling or describe something that can hardly be put into words. It should transcend time, so that people who read it years from now can still envision the emotions and ideas that it represents. A poem should be general or encompassing enough that each person can interpret it according to their own life and experiences and be inspired by it for that reason.

That is my prose for this poem. You may interpret it differently.

Answer 2

From reading it I the general idea that "silence can be deafening" pops out at me.
Try to decipher the meanings line by line and then you could possibly write them as less symbolic and more poetic sounding.

Answer 3

Read and study carefully. Prose is plain writing, no rhymes or verse.

Answer 4

I would take the second to the last line out but I don't know about the rest.

Answer 5

You need to decipher line by line.Its not an easy poem to understand.Keep reading and rereading it line by line.