The document discusses the difference between prose, poems, and poetry. Prose uses ordinary language without a metrical structure, while a poem uses language arranged in a rhythmic and metrical pattern to express ideas or emotions. Poetry is a type of literature that uses language and form to evoke emotional responses. The document examines Coleridge's view that poetry is an activity of the mind that can exist without meter or form, and a poem is a verbal expression of that activity. It concludes that a work cannot be defined as a poem or prose solely based on rhyme and meter, but also by its ultimate purpose and the effect it aims to achieve.

1. THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN
PROSE POEM AND POETRY
Prepared and Presented by Minkal Italiya
Paper-3 Literary Theory and Criticism Western Poetics -1
Semester 1
Roll No. 26
Enrollment No. 2069108420190020
Email id: italiyaminkal@gmail.com
S.B.Gardi Department of English
Maharaja Krishnkumarsinhji Bhavangar University

2. Introduction
• What is Prose?
• Prose is the ordinary form of
spoken or written language
which has no metrical structure.
It applies a natural flow of
speech and grammatical
structure rather than the
rhythmic structure.

3. What is Poem and Poetry?
• A poem is a collection of spoken
or written words that expresses
ideas or emotions in powerfully
vivid and imaginative style. A
poem is compromised of a
particular rhythmic and metrical
pattern.
• Poetry is a type of literature
which evokes a concentrated
imaginative awareness of
experience or a specific
emotional response through
language chosen and arranged
for its meaning, sound and
rhythm

4. THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN PROSE AND
POEM IN COLERIDGE’S BIOGRPHIA LITERARIA
• Different between the combination of elements and object
• Immediate purpose and Ultimate end
Scientific and historical composition
Prose works of romances and novels

5. Example: Three Oddest Words
• Poem by Wisala
• No use of meter or rhyme
• Creative arrangement of words
• Use of right word at right time

6. THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN POEM AND POETRY IN
COLORIDGE’S BIOGRAPHIA LITERIRIA
• “ Poetry of the highest kind may exist without metre and even
without contras distinguishing objects of poem”.
• Writing of Plato, Jeremy
• For Coloridge ‘poetry’ is an activity of mind and a poem is merely one
of the forms of its expression, a verbal experession of that activity is
basically an activity of imagination.

7. Work of art can be considere as poetry or
not?

8. Conclusion
• Poem and Prose can not be distinguish only by rhyme and meter but
by ultimate and immediate purpose
• Poem is a form of poetry while the poetry is the art of creating poem