It has often been observed that the repercussion of poetic language on prose language can be considered a decisive cut of a whip.
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However, if a poem can be reduced to a prose sentence, there can't be much to it.
Poetry seems to be the only weapon able to beat language, using language's own means.
If you like the precision and concision of poetry, a page of prose is unsatisfying in a certain way. And poetry is so direct.
I think poetry should be read very much like prose, except that the line breaks should be acknowledged somehow.
From the reader's view, a poem is more demanding than prose.
When critics are waiting to pounce upon poetic style on exactly the same grounds as if it were prose, the poets tremble.
The lines of poetry, the period of prose, and even the texts of Scripture most frequently recollected and quoted, are those which are felt to be preeminently musical.
The sense of flowing, which is so crucial to song, is also crucial to poetry.
One characteristic of modern poetry is that arrangement of parts which strikes many people as being violent or obscure.
The line is a way of framing poetry. All verse is measured by lines. The poetic line immediately announces its difference from everyday speech and prose.
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