1. Finding Poetry in Prose and Prose in Poetry: Discrete Skills
Heart of Darkness

2. Poetry vs. Prose Prose Poetry From Latin prosa meaning straightforward
Also connotes everyday speech.
Artful prose employs literary devices.
Any Rhythmical or Metrical Composition
Intricate Structure
Evokes Emotional and Intellectual Response
Rich and Intricate Levels of Meaning

3. Poetry vs. Prose
Vers libre [free verse] has not even the excuse of a polemic; it is a battle-cry of freedom, and there is no freedom in art. And as the so-called vers libre, which is good is anything but 'free', it can better be defended under some other label.
T.S. Eliot
Reflections on Vers Libre

4. Rhetoric vs Prosady Rhetoric Prosody
The Art of Persuasion through speaking and writing
Artful use of stylistic devices to:
Persuade
Praise or Blame
Create Guilt or Innocence
The Study of Versification, especially
Meter
Rhyme
Rhythm
Sound Patterns

5. Synonyms Poetry Prose Words Phrases Sentences Paragraphs Chapters
Syllables
Feet
Lines
Stanzas
Cantos

6. Figures of Speech Rhetorical Figures Tropes
Language used to create special effects:
Antithesis
Apostrophe
Chiasmus
Parallelism
Rhetorical Question
Syllepsis
Zeugma
To turn or twist the meaning of a word or phrase to make it mean something else
Metaphor
Simile
Metonymy
Synecdoche
Personification

7. Common Elements of Poetic Prose
Fragmentation
Compression
Repetition
Rhyme
Epithets
Inversion,
Lengthy Periodic Sentences
Nouns and Abstracts Before Verbs,
Antithesis

8. Loose and Periodic Sentences
Marlow sat cross-legged right aft, leaning against the mizzenmast.

9. Marlow sat cross-legged right aft, leaning against the mizzenmast.

10. He had sunken cheeks, a yellow complexion, a straight back, an ascetic aspect, and with his arms dropped, the palms of hands outwards, resembled an idol

11. He had sunken cheeks, a yellow complexion, a straight back, an ascetic aspect, and with his arms dropped, the palms of hands outwards, resembled an idol.

12. Marlow sat cross-legged right aft, leaning against the mizzenmast.

13. Marlow sat cross-legged right aft, leaning against the mizzenmast.
Adverbial Phrases
Marlow sat cross-legged right aft, leaning against the mizzenmast.

14. He had sunken cheeks, a yellow complexion, a straight back, an ascetic aspect, and with his arms dropped, the palms of hands outwards, resembled an idol

15. Epithets or Adjective Phrases
He had sunken cheeks, a yellow complexion, a straight back, an ascetic aspect, and with his arms dropped, the palms of hands outwards, resembled an idol

16. Marlow’s first words about the Manager
My first interview with the manager was curious.
PERIODIC SENTENCE
SIMPLE SENTENCE

17. He had no learning and no intelligence.
PERIODIC SENTENCE
Litote
Parallel

18. Short Periodic Sentence
But he was great.

19. Read 1st page and have music going
"Impression, soleil levant“ (rising sun) monet 1873