I imagine that if I would have gone to school the awswer to this question would be self evident. But I didn't so... please tell me: Do standards differ from verse and prose?
Specifically, can a piece of prose that is judged to be discontinuous and random be judged to be simply associative, and perhaps succesfully so, as verse?
Does prejudging a piece of writing as prose automatically sort of dumb it down..no, I don't mean that... does it automatically make the stringing-of-it-along a less intuitive matter?
I've got Prince's "Dictionary of Narratology." Could you tell me some terms in it that could pertain to my problem.
To my mind, the entity, the unsubstantial entity that connects two disparate elements is what is actually being said... when these two or more disparate elements are juxtaposed. And it seems perfectly normal and interesting to write in this disjointed manner.
Are there any lessons you think I should learn to help me communicate sucessfully without loosing that modular structure with its subconscious eruptions?
Perplexed, TEd
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