What are the characteristics of prose poetry?

Prose poetry is a literary genre with both prose and poetry characteristics. It combines the expressive power of poetry with some characteristics of prose description. In essence, it belongs to the artistic conception and fantasy of poetry, giving readers aesthetic feeling and imagination, but retaining poetic prose details in content. Formally, it has the appearance of prose, unlike poetry, which has division and rhyme.

The background of prose poetry

However, prose poetry has inherent musical beauty and sense of rhythm. It can be said to be a poem written in the form of prose. The so-called prose is a concise summary of this style. Prose poems generally express the author's small feelings on the basis of social and life background, and pay attention to describing the fluctuations and fragments of thoughts and feelings caused by objective life.

It has the general characteristics of prose, such as short length, wide subject matter, flexible and diverse expression methods, scattered form, rich spirit but not miscellaneous, etc. However, compared with general prose, its language pays more attention to conciseness and meaning, its content is more jumping, it has the artistic conception required by poetry, and often contains the author's rich philosophy and strong thoughts and feelings in limited space.