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The ongoing quest to define poetry. I'm just gonna work out all sorts of crap here on my blog, of interest to no one, barely even myself. (Italics are him; non-italics are me.)

WCW says:

prose has to do with the fact of an emotion; poetry has to do with the dynamization of emotion into a separate form. This is the force of imagination.

Prose = fact. Poetry = a separate form, other than fact. So poetry is something else, something that has to do with imagination, conveying emotion. It's something that is trying to indicate something else. It is a... sign? A symbol? Symbolic representation of emotion? Expression of emotion through other than explicit description?

prose: statement of facts concerning emotions, intellectual states, data of all sorts -- technical expositions, jargon, of all sorts -- fictional and other --

poetry: new form dealt with as a reality in itself.

A reality in itself.
Okay.
The dynamization of emotion (by use of symbolic? means? is all poetry symbolic? what?) resulting in a new reality = a poem?

Please do not tell me these are easy concepts to understand, or I will hit you.

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