Finding Poetry in Prose and Prose in Poetry: Discrete Skills Heart of Darkness

1. Finding Poetry in Prose and Prose in Poetry: Discrete Skills Heart of Darkness

2. Poetry Poetry vs. Prose Prose From Latin prosa meaning straightforward Also connotes everyday speech. Artful prose employs literary devices. Any Rhythmical or Metrical Composition Intricate Structure Evokes Emotional and Intellectual Response Rich and Intricate Levels of Meaning

3. Poetry vs. Prose • Vers libre [free verse] has not even the excuse of a polemic; it is a battle-cry of freedom, and there is no freedom in art. And as the so-called vers libre, which is good is anything but 'free', it can better be defended under some other label. • T.S. Eliot • Reflections on VersLibre

4. Prosody Rhetoric vs Prosady Rhetoric The Art of Persuasion through speaking and writing Artful use of stylistic devices to: Persuade Praise or Blame Create Guilt or Innocence The Study of Versification, especially Meter Rhyme Rhythm Sound Patterns

5. Prose Synonyms Poetry Words Phrases Sentences Paragraphs Chapters Syllables Feet Lines Stanzas Cantos

6. Tropes Figures of Speech Rhetorical Figures Language used to create special effects: Antithesis Apostrophe Chiasmus Parallelism Rhetorical Question Syllepsis Zeugma To turn or twist the meaning of a word or phrase to make it mean something else Metaphor Simile Metonymy Synecdoche Personification

7. Common Elements of Poetic Prose • Fragmentation • Compression • Repetition • Rhyme • Epithets • Inversion, • Lengthy Periodic Sentences • Nouns and Abstracts Before Verbs, • Antithesis

8. Loose and Periodic Sentences Marlow sat cross-legged right aft, leaning against the mizzenmast.

9. Marlow sat cross-legged right aft, leaning against the mizzenmast.

10. He had sunken cheeks, a yellow complexion, a straight back, an ascetic aspect, and with his arms dropped, the palms of hands outwards, resembled an idol

11. He had sunken cheeks, a yellow complexion, a straight back, an ascetic aspect, and with his arms dropped, the palms of hands outwards, resembled an idol.

12. Marlow sat cross-legged right aft, leaning against the mizzenmast.

13. Adverbial Phrases Marlow sat cross-legged right aft, leaning against the mizzenmast.

14. He had sunken cheeks, a yellow complexion, a straight back, an ascetic aspect, and with his arms dropped, the palms of hands outwards, resembled an idol

15. Epithets or Adjective Phrases He had sunken cheeks, a yellow complexion, a straight back, an ascetic aspect, and with his arms dropped, the palms of hands outwards, resembled an idol

16. Marlow’s first words about the Manager • My first interview with the manager was curious. • PERIODIC SENTENCE • SIMPLE SENTENCE

17. He hadnolearning and nointelligence. • PERIODIC SENTENCE • Litote • Parallel

18. Short Periodic Sentence • But he was great.