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Question: A test on prose !.!.!. is this prose and what do you think!?
I'd love to get to know her!. To have her think of me as a human rather than just her brother's on and off again crappy girlfriend!. I'd love to have coffee with her!. To find out if she really meant to stumble on that altar; is she actually "knocked up;" what does she think about politics, religion, books, money and drugs!. But whenever I see her, she senselessly rambles about her life in a way that makes me want to slap her!. The relentless blithering makes me ill!. She will never forget that last big fight I had with her brother!. I will never be in her "good graces!." Our cafe conversation will never take place because in her mind I'll always be that ***** who hurt her brother!. What about the brother who hurt that *****!? It's of no consequence, so today I sit in my home puttsing around on the computer, watching senseless reality television shows and testing prose material instead of going to her wedding!. Here comes the bride - the thought of her in that dress makes me ill!. I hope someone takes pictures!. That dress better not be white!.Www@QuestionHome@Com


Best Answer - Chosen by Asker:
This is almost prosaic!. Prose is more like extended poetry than flowery dialog or narration!. As with a magnifying glass, the closer you look at a line the less angular its stroke appears!. The lines between literature, prose and poetry are not really lines!. They're more like fields that slide and warp with each application!.

There's a great line by Roy Blount, Jr!. "Studying literature at Harvard is like learning about women at the Mayo Clinic!."

Let your ideas strain through a sieve of your design, with a mesh woven in the density of your choice!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

When M!. Jourdain makes that remark, the audience laughs hysterically at the ignorance of the statement!. I know, because I saw a performance, imitating the original, in Paris!. What you have written is not literature in itself, it is a paragraph in casual/street language!. Our major goal at this time is poetry, but you tempt me to eventually open a Literature Page!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

I only had to read two sentences to realise it's prose!. Prose is like a story or a statement, poetry is a paragraph that follows rules!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

well there are prose and cons, the cons are no good being in jail!.

Still I liked your offering and feel sorry for the pain you went and are still going through over this mess!. Chin up please and watch where you are walking!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

Yes, that is prose; I'd call it creative nonfiction in fact, and I think it's a fine piece of writing!. Your repetition works to its own advantage, also, by the way!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

Yes ~ very aptly said!. Some peoples grudges are their burden that they seem to wish to burden us with too ~ and we are ~ and we do live within the drama!.
Prose, Idk, but hit home with me!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

definitely bittersweetWww@QuestionHome@Com

Sure, it's prose!. Nice, rhythmical prose!. You have a good ear for that!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

Thank you for your excellent example!. I have much to learn sen-say!
giggles!. Thanks for putting up with me!Www@QuestionHome@Com

Man, I don't want to piss you off!.! (lol) I think it is a great write that the passion virtually seethes out of!. Very amusingWww@QuestionHome@Com

Seems to be

Nice jobWww@QuestionHome@Com

I think so!. It's great!Www@QuestionHome@Com

This is sad, funny and bitter sweet!.

I'm calling it excellent prose!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

That's the siht man!. lol
Damn I used lol twice!. lol
Oh well, third times a treat!.
tee hee!.!.

I have to google most things in this category, I am interested in what I learn, so I googled "Prose" & found this!.

Pierre de Ronsard, the French poet, said that his training as a poet had proved to him that prose and poetry were mortal enemies!. In Molière's play Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme, Monsieur Jourdain asks something to be written in neither verse nor prose!. A philosophy master says to him, "Sir, there is no other way to express oneself than with prose or verse"!. Jourdain replies, "By my faith! For more than forty years I have been speaking prose without knowing anything about it, and I am much obliged to you for having taught me that!."Www@QuestionHome@Com

me do no get into the technical aspects of prose and poetry!. me can only speak of what me feels!. this verse is a prose, because it is not a poem!. but prose is a class of wide variety starting from rambling, gibberish nonsense to extremely poetically tuned prose that would work on me like any masterpiece poem!. your verse is in the middle, leaning a little towards the poetic side [due to the intense feelings in contents]!.
do you know what me likes in this verse!? you tone was tuned fine!. me can feel your [the speaker's] voice, heat, anger, furry, mood of vigorous self defense, and even her schadenfreude!. tyWww@QuestionHome@Com