How to distinguish poetry, prose and novel?

The classification of literary works is generally divided into "three points" and "four points". Trigonometry divides various literary genres into three categories according to the ways of creating images: narrative, lyric and drama. The "quartering method" classifies all literary works into four categories according to their different basic points in image-building, institutional structure, language use and expression methods, namely, poetry, novel, prose and drama literature (this classification method is widely used in China).

How to distinguish poetry, prose and novel?

Poetry:

Prose:

Novel:

Among the three descriptions of trees in the above paragraphs, poetic language is the most subjective. In fact, the poet regards the image of "a tree on the edge of a cliff" as a symbol of his spirit and character. On the surface, it describes the loneliness, stubbornness and resistance of trees, while the deep meaning symbolizes the poet's own subjective feelings.

The language of the novel is the most objective, and the author of the novel grasps the characteristics of the branches and makes a detailed outline.

Prose language has both subjective and objective factors. On the one hand, the prose writer objectively and meticulously describes the tenacious image of the tree, on the other hand, he expresses the author's feelings and experiences in lyric language of subjective praise.

It can be said that poetry is the most subjective and expressive surreal language with simple and sparse lines; Fiction is the most objective and reproducible plain language, and its language lines are relatively fine and meticulous. Prose language is somewhere in between-it is subjective and objective, performance and reproduction coexist, and the language lines are dense and thin. If we look at the aesthetic characteristics of plain and literary prose language in this way, we can have the concept of prose language-prose language should objectively reproduce the life situation with a free attitude like a novel, and it can also absorb some metaphors, metaphors, symbols and exaggerations of poetic language to subjectively express the prose situation.

This article is transferred from Sina blog: Short Story Liu Haitao.

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