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

Poetry vs. Prose in Shakespeares Hamlet   In any intervention of poetry vs. prose worth its stanzas, questions regarding such tools as meter, rhyme, and format must hang into play. These are, after all, the most obvious distinguishing features of poetry, and they must certainly be samara in de noteining the definition, and in fact nature, of poetry.   Yet a term as broad as poetry is not so intimately quantified as to simply attribute physical characteristics to it and let all physical composition either fall into or out of that category. Poetry is determined by the effect upon the reader. It is an individual opinion, and thus defined by the collected (individual) reactions. Queen. at that place is a willow grows askaunt the brook, That shows his hoary leaves on the glassy stream, Therewith violent garlands did she make Of crow-flowers, nettles, daisies, and long purples That liberal shepherds give a grosser name, But our cull-cold maids do dead mens fingers call t hem. There on the pendant boughs her crownet widows weeds Clambring to hand, an envious sliver broke, When down her weedy trophies and herself Fell in the tears brook. Her clothes spread wide, And mermaid-like awhile they bore her up, Which time she chaunted snatches of old lauds, As one incapable of her own distress, Or like a wolf native and indued Unto that element. But long it could not be Till that her garments clayey with their drink, Pulld the poor wretch from her melodious lay To muddy death. -Shakespeares Hamlet, Act IV Scene VII   Take, for example, the above text from Hamlet. One of the more inspiration monologues of the play, it describes the death of Ophelia in specific, touching terms. Think of the audience re... ...cess. One brush aside only hope that it is better than, You know, to muddy death.   Poetry is the feeling that comes when a person sees something that strikes a chord in their chest which reverberates in the pulsation struck. How often have you heard something other than line poetry draw passionately as poetic? It is a crude word 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 placement, 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 right smart from within when we see it in some form before us, careless(predicate) of line or verse.