Prose and poetry are different in construction. You can lie… - Michael Schmidt

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Prose and poetry are different in construction. You can lie back and read prose, and you can read it fast. Poetry on the other hand, requires a different kind of attention and concentration … the effect it has on the ear and the imagination.

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Michael Schmidt (born 2 March 1947 in Mexico City) is a Mexican-British poet, author and scholar. He is currently Professor of Poetry at Glasgow University.

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Prose uses the medium of language whilst poetry serves language and explores it.

The reader does not need a technical vocabulary to read poetry, only a voice in the head or out loud which can deliver the sounds.

What matters in poetry is form, how words work together, the sounds and silences their combinations make. The ordered effects they produce on the attentive hearer.

Prose and poetry are different in construction. You can lie back and read prose, and you can read it fast. Poetry on the other hand, requires a diffe… - Michael Schmidt

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