>Now,
>can we get from there to the idea that we parse long & short lines
>differently?
>I'm not sure.
I'm not sure either. There is also the question of the prose poem, and
why it might be identified as a poem, even though it uses sentence
structures - in The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, for example, I can't
think of the prosaic structures as anything but poetry. Or Baudelaire's
Spleen. There are short stories by James Kelman or Alasdair Gray which
seem to me to be prose poems, although they are called "short stories".
There is some shadow border which is surely one of readerly perception;
perhaps a poem or that which is called a poem seems to demand a more
charged expectation of language. But I'm really not sure about that!
Best
Alison
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