A reader asked a famous writer: How should prose, novel and poem be distinguished?

Prose: without paying attention to phonology and parallelism, without any constraints and restrictions, expressing emotions with one or more central ideas,

Narration, reasoning, etc. What's important is to be apart.

Novel: Reflect the author's thoughts by constructing stories, shaping characters and environment. Novels generally have more detailed time.

Location, personnel, reason, process, result, etc. , has a strong story.

Poetry: A highly concise and concentrated reflection of social life in a lyrical way, with rich imagination, rich sense of rhythm and beautiful rhythm.

The arrangement of words and lines to express thoughts and feelings.

Personal understanding, novel narration, poetry lyricism and prose are in between, but there is no fixed routine.