/lit/ - Literature

>>22051486
>poetry: still tenuously connected to spoken word and performance
>novel: individual 'voice'/style silently unseating composition conventions of prose tied to rhetoric

The sustained effort required of a novel is akin to a symphony, and is only approximating what poetry can in flashes and glimpses. It's exceedingly rare.

>Why the emphasis on novels?

Theater died alongside orchestral music and both have been reduced to status symbol cargo cults maintained by moneyed rubes. They sell and have larger page counts. What you get from a novel typically is an experience previously lived through theater and the orchestra/opera. But not all stories are suitable for the stage. The novel is the editorial and comics section of the newspaper to their reportage.

>>22052957
The music of prosody > communication of prose, the latter's always and intrinsically utilitarian and requires more artifice. What it comes down to is vanity: what about this is worth anyone's time to read? A poem in most cases doesn't stake that kind of claim. You walk through a novel's events, while a poem presents something complete for contemplation, a mystery. Be suspicious of people that forswear verse altogether, they cannot sit still.