A modern lyric literary genre with the characteristics of both poetry and prose, which combines the expressive power of poetry and the descriptive nature of prose. It belongs to poetry in essence, with poetic feelings and fantasies, but it retains poetic prose details in content. Formally, it has the appearance of prose, unlike poetry, but it lacks the inherent beauty of music and rhythm.
Prose poems generally rely on social and life background to express the author's small feelings and pay attention to describing the fluctuations and fragments of thoughts and feelings caused by objective life. These characteristics determine the richness of its theme and the brevity and flexibility of its form. Prose poetry is a modern style, which is developed to meet the psychological characteristics of people in modern society, such as sensitivity, thoughtfulness and complexity.
Prose poetry is a new style produced by the mutual infiltration and intersection of poetry and prose. There is no doubt that prose poetry is a kind of "grafting" between prose and poetry. Prose poetry has the amphibious characteristics of poetry and prose. Prose poetry not only absorbs the function of poetry to express subjective mind and emotion, but also absorbs the function of prose to express freely and casually, so that the two are integrated and form their own uniqueness. Can be said to be a stranger to poetry and prose.