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How about the other way around? Prose mixed into poems? Lowell's "Life Studies" is one example of this. Particularly fascinating is the work of Donald Finkel, which extends the concept of epigraph into interpolations of collaged prose throughout many of his longer poems, like "Endurance" or "Beyond Despair." kasper salonen wrote: > now that you mention it the Silmarillion has a whole hell of a lot of > poetry mixed in with the prose, mainly because it's a sort of mega > creation/folk tale amalgam & the poetry represents 'actual' stories > told from generation to the next. also the world is created through > song, which makes songs (& therefore lyrics) central to the narration. > > KS > > On 25/03/07, meikamonagmail <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >> On 25/03/2007, at 2:42, Cindy Lee wrote: >> >> > Poetry in Prose - did anyone read the piece(s?) in Harry Potter - >> > Order of the Phoenix, I think? >> > >> > Off to retrieve footballs from next door's back garden... >> > >> > Cindy >> >> no but I'll ask the other, >> if truth be told I first came across it in Tolkien's Middle Earth... >> >> meika >> http:/meika.loofs-samorzewski.com >> > -- Tad Richards http://www.opus40.org/tadrichards/ http://opusforty.blogspot.com/