prose poem

Noun

Meaning

prose that resembles poetry

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prose-poem

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“A Child’s Christmas in Wales” is a short story (or a long prose poem) looking back on Thomas’ childhood in Swansea. Source: Internet

At Rousseau's suggestion, Coignet composed musical interludes for Rousseau's prose poem Pygmalion; this was performed in Lyon together with Rousseau's romance The Village Soothsayer to public acclaim. Source: Internet

However, Penelope Niven, Sandburg's biographer, called "a vast, epic prose poem, with Lincoln the central figure in the volatile pageant of nineteenth-century American life." Source: Internet

They mocked when Edgar Allan Poe published his prose poem "Eureka" in his last year of life, describing how the universe had begun with a single "primordial particle" that exploded outwards in "one instantaneous flash." Source: Internet

The copy I read was cataloged as juvenile fiction, but it's clearly a memoir too, and given the crystalline precision of the language, you could easily call the whole thing a prose poem. Source: Internet

This passage, from a chapter that Bezanson calls a comical "prose poem", blends "high and low with a relaxed assurance". Source: Internet

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