Whats your opinion on why some writers choose poetry instead of fiction or autobiography when writing about their experiences? What can poetry offer an artist that other genres don't?
Whats your opinion on why some writers choose poetry instead of fiction or autobiography when writing about their experiences? What can poetry offer an artist that other genres don't?
I don´t feel it is a matter of what an genre can offer, but in which genre an author feels he/she can express himself/herself best. Poetry and prose demand different abilities. Autobiography is usually a form of nonfictional prose. Many authors write poetry as well as fiction and nonfiction, autobiographical or not.
Last edited by Danik 2016; 05-09-2016 at 03:29 PM.
"I seemed to have sensed also from an early age that some of my experiences as a reader would change me more as a person than would many an event in the world where I sat and read. "
Gerald Murnane, Tamarisk Row
There is a close relationship between poetry and rhythm. Some poems can almost be sung...See the Wikipedia item on Rhythm.
I don't see a dividing line between the two. Poetry can be fiction. What do you think Paradise Lost is?
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