The difference between prose poem and poetry

The defference between prose poem and poetry in Coloridge's Literary Biographia

1. THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN PROSE POEM AND POETRY Prepared and Presented by Minkal Italiya Paper-3 Literary Theory and Criticism Western Poetics -1 Semester 1 Roll No. 26 Enrollment No. 2069108420190020 Email id: [email protected] S.B.Gardi Department of English Maharaja Krishnkumarsinhji Bhavangar University

2. Introduction What is Prose? Prose is the ordinary form of spoken or written language which has no metrical structure. It applies a natural flow of speech and grammatical structure rather than the rhythmic structure.

3. What is Poem and Poetry? A poem is a collection of spoken or written words that expresses ideas or emotions in powerfully vivid and imaginative style. A poem is compromised of a particular rhythmic and metrical pattern. Poetry is a type of literature which evokes a concentrated imaginative awareness of experience or a specific emotional response through language chosen and arranged for its meaning, sound and rhythm

4. THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN PROSE AND POEM IN COLERIDGE’S BIOGRPHIA LITERARIA Different between the combination of elements and object Immediate purpose and Ultimate end Scientific and historical composition Prose works of romances and novels

5. Example: Three Oddest Words Poem by Wisala No use of meter or rhyme Creative arrangement of words Use of right word at right time

6. THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN POEM AND POETRY IN COLORIDGE’S BIOGRAPHIA LITERIRIA “ Poetry of the highest kind may exist without metre and even without contras distinguishing objects of poem”. Writing of Plato, Jeremy For Coloridge ‘poetry’ is an activity of mind and a poem is merely one of the forms of its expression, a verbal experession of that activity is basically an activity of imagination.

7. Work of art can be considere as poetry or not?

8. Conclusion Poem and Prose can not be distinguish only by rhyme and meter but by ultimate and immediate purpose Poem is a form of poetry while the poetry is the art of creating poem