A careful analysis of poetry and prose;
1. The difference between prose and poetry
I think the main feature that distinguishes poetry from prose is the phonological feature of its style.
Linguist Wang Li said; Rhyme is poetry, but no rhyme is literature. Zhu Guangqian, an aesthete, said: Poetry is pure literature with rhythm.
These two poetic theories coincide with each other and hit the nail on the head, telling the essential characteristics of poetry very concisely and clearly. Actually, that's what happened. Poetry is the art of expressing life and thoughts in rhythmic language.
Poetry and prose can be the same in content, but there is only one difference. Poetry pays attention to rhythm, which is a kind of music language art that pays attention to the phonetic effect formed by the contradictory movement of rhyme rhythm and sound rhythm in its poetry. Poetry and prose can be transformed into each other.
Poetry is concise and profound; Prose is elegant and stretched, and there is room for full play; Poetry emphasizes intuition and inspiration, and can be divided into narrative poetry, lyric poetry and religious test according to different contents, which can be implicit or direct. Prose pays attention to the freedom of form, and the so-called form is scattered but the spirit is not scattered.
2. The difference between prose and poetry
Difference:
1. Different rhymes
Prose has no rhyme, rhyme and certain rhythm; Poetry has rhyme, rhyme and a certain rhythm.
2. Different sentence patterns.
Poetry sentences are generally in rows, paying attention to the beauty of structural form. Prose does not pursue the neatness of sentence patterns.
3. Different lengths
Generally speaking, poetry is limited in space; Generally speaking, prose is not limited in length.