In terms of popularity, novels are the highest, followed by prose and poetry. As for why this happens, I think it is mainly because reading these three languages requires different brains and feelings.
Fiction is closely related to people's lives, because it was originally born out of stories that happened in real life, but it was only treated by artistic techniques. Different novels also have different characteristics, or ingenious conception, or hearty, or fierce dog blood, or bloody violence, in any case, there are always the following characteristics:
First of all, it is not difficult to understand. Regardless of the reader's knowledge level and life experience, the main elements of the novel are characters and story lines, which are very suitable for our daily life and can be read easily. Except for some difficult or brain-burning elements in some types of novels, most novels can still be understood and accepted by most readers, which laid the foundation for them to get pleasure from them later.
Secondly, novels are the reprocessing of people's daily life, so it is easy for readers to further produce * * * songs on the basis of understanding, and this kind of * * * songs can make people feel happy in spirit to a great extent, which is also an important reason why many people like reading novels.
Thirdly, novels can easily make people feel immersive. As long as the setting and plot of the characters are wonderful enough, readers can quickly immerse themselves in the scene set by the story, get through the customs together with the characters, get drunk together and fall in love together. All kinds of regrets in reality, following characters experience in the novel, are not so hard to accept.
To put it bluntly, you don't have to use too much brains to read novels, so it's easy to read. People can be narcissistic or anesthetized, which can stimulate people to have different feelings, such as pleasure, sadness and fear. These stimuli are actually beneficial supplements to readers' real life.
Diaries and essays are actually a huge number of text types on the platform. Like novels, their content comes from real life. It's just that they are the author's real records and feelings about real life, which are relatively loose and trivial without careful design, and can't cause too many associations and * * * sounds.
Diaries and essays are like all kinds of vegetables on display in the market. They can be read, but not attractive. The novel is a series of delicious dishes carefully fried with these vegetables, which are full of color, flavor and taste, naturally making people's index fingers move and have the desire to find out.
Prose is more beautiful in the form of words than novels, and it is more particular about the choice of words and sentences. But prose focuses on lyricism, which is the artistic expression of the author's inner thoughts and feelings. This kind of thing has become more personalized and personal than the story. If you meet readers with similar interests and ideas, you may like them very much. Otherwise, it is difficult to attract enough attention and interest.
Moreover, the beautiful writing style of prose requires readers to have a certain writing skills to appreciate. For ordinary readers, it may be that peony is to cattle and horses, only knowing that it can satisfy the appetite, but not knowing its fragrance.
In addition, the emotions and interests expressed in prose need readers to calm down and chew slowly, understand carefully and mobilize enough brain cells to understand the meaning, which requires readers to have higher understanding and feelings. Perhaps only readers who like to use their brains, love thinking, have accumulated knowledge and have similar experiences can do this kind of collision that touches the soul at a deeper level.
This may be the reason why prose cannot be liked and accepted by the public.
Poetry is more excessive than prose, expressing more subtle thoughts and feelings in more refined language. Prose can at least be understood, and the ideas that the author wants to express can also be understood, but the degree of acceptance is different. Although a sentence in the poem is read through, the reader may not know what the author really wants to express.
In poetry, the author hides his feelings deeply between the lines. He intends to provide readers with as little information as possible so that they can capture their true thoughts. Poetry is a hide-and-seek game played by authors and readers. His purpose is not to make readers understand what he wants to express at all, but to make readers guess what he is expressing.
Even the result of this guess has no standard answer, and different people have different understandings, and this difference may be exactly what the author hopes. Many times, even the author doesn't necessarily know what he really wants to express. What he wants is vague and abstract beauty.
Therefore, poetry has higher requirements for readers. Even if readers mobilize all their knowledge and thinking, they may not fully understand the author's meaning, and may even do the opposite, or they may be too far from the subject.
Under such high requirements, the height and quantity of poetry are not difficult to understand.
Novels are like milk tea. The reader just needs to sit comfortably and pour it into his mouth, which not only quenches his thirst, but also can always get some pleasant enjoyment more or less.
Prose is like olives, you need to keep tasting it to taste it. And that smell is unique. People you like love to death, but people you don't like can't love each other.
Poetry is like a cloud in the sky, far and near, thick and light. Different people will see different shapes from different angles. As for what we can learn from it, we can only have different opinions.
But no matter which way it is written, it is a mixture of juice, olives and clouds for the writer himself. It not only quenches thirst with delicious food, but also nourishes the soul, and also makes the author feel a sense of control and accomplishment that I hold in my hand.
Beyond this sense of accomplishment, what reading likes, what praises and bad reviews, what rankings, and what drills are all floating clouds!