The viewpoint that the landlord asks questions is valid, and there are many related academic papers on the Internet. The basic topic will be more obvious from the perspective of poetry.
From the perspective of classical poetry, western poetry generally has a story before poetry, such as Iliad and Odyssey, which are narrative, while China's long poems such as Li Sao and Peacock Flying Southeast have a story before lyric. Narrative elements including time, place, characters and events are not valued in China's poems. Take Peacock Flying Southeast as an example, a lot of dialogues in the poem are only created for lyricism, and even illogical in some aspects.
Secondly, from the perspective of drama, Shakespeare and other western works basically have complete plots, such as The Merchant of Venice and Macbeth, and even the plots such as Dou Eyuan and The Palace of Eternal Life are fictional, and the stories only serve lyricism, so there are relatively more online materials about drama. /s/blog _ 537d 19870 100 gv55 . html
However, the status of novels in China has always been relatively low, and prose is not comparable. The representative ones are basically the four classic novels, and they are not telling stories for the sake of telling stories.