S.T Coleridge's Biographia

1) write in your words the difference between poem and prose.

Answer:- The poem contains the same elements as a prose composition. But the difference between combination of those elements and objects .

Definition
    
         ' It is written or spoken language in its ordinary form without metrical structure'
Definition of prose :-
    
         ' It is written or spoken language in its ordinary form without metrical structure'
  
• Difference between poem and prose:

•     Metre and rhyme or both is used in a poem But they are not use in prose composition.

•   Immediate purpose of poem is the communication of  'Pleasure'. But the immediate purpose of prose is the communication of  ' Truth'.

•   Meter  and rhyme etc are use in poem but they are not use in prose.

•   If Meter  is used it can be poem but a poem can not please us if there is not organic unity . so main aim of poem is to give pleasure .

2) write in your words the difference between poem and poetry.

•  The difference between poem and poetry is not much clear. Both are as like almost same. We have distinguish poetry and poem that “ it is a distinction resulting from the poetic genius itself, which sustains and modifies the images, thoughts, and emotion of the poets mind and poem is an activity of the poet’s own mind’. 

•   Poetry is an activity of the poet’s mind. Poem is forms of its expression and also verbal expression of that activity. Poetry is a kind of activity which can be engaged in by painters or philosophers or scientist. Poetry brings ‘the whole soul of man’ with each faculty playing its proper part according to its ‘relative worth and dignity’. Poem is a form of its expression and poetry is basically an activity of the imagination. 

  

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