Poetry vs. Prose in Shakespeares Hamlet Essay -- Shakespeare Hamlet

Poetry vs. Prose in Shakespeares Hamlet   In any discussion of meter vs. prose worth its stanzas, questions regarding such tools as meter, rhyme, and format must come into play. These are, later on all, the most obvious distinguishing features of poetry, and they must certainly be key in determining the definition, and in fact nature, of poetry.   Yet a term as broad as poetry is not so easily quantified as to simply attribute physical characteristics to it and let all writing both fall into or out of that category. Poetry is determined by the exploit upon the reader. It is an individual opinion, and thus defined by the collected (individual) reactions. Queen. There is a willow grows askaunt the brook, That shows his hoary leaves on the glassy stream, Therewith fantastic garlands did she build up Of crow-flowers, nettles, daisies, and long purples That liberal shepherds give a grosser name, But our cull-cold maids do shortly mens fingers call them. There on the pend ant boughs her crownet weeds Clambring to hand, an grabby sliver broke, When down her weedy trophies and herself Fell in the weeping brook. Her raiment spread wide, And mermaid-like awhile they bore her up, Which time she chaunted snatches of old lauds, As star incapable of her own distress, Or like a creature indigenous and indued Unto that element. But long it could not be Till that her garments heavy with their drink, Pulld the poor people wretch from her melodious lay To muddy close. -Shakespeares Hamlet, Act IV scenery VII   Take, for example, the above text from Hamlet. One of the more stirring monologues of the play, it describes the death of Ophelia in specific, touching terms. Think of the audience re... ...cess. One can alone hope that it is better than, You know, to muddy death.   Poetry is the feeling that comes when a mortal sees some occasion that strikes a chord in their chest which reverberates in the rhythm struck. How lots have you heard somethin g other than stock poetry described passionately as poetic? It is a common leger because it is descriptive of that wonder we have when we read truly good verse. It is a common word because after we feel it once (in that poetry), we know it again in other forms.   Not all of those forms rhyme. The poetry is not the line situation, it is what the line placement helps express. It is simply a more effective (and more technically difficult) thing to accomplish when placed in meter. Poetry is that song that finds its way from inwardly when we see it in some form before us, regardless of line or verse.