a prose composition characterized by a poetic style
prose poem in American English
noun
a composition written as prose but having the concentrated, rhythmic, figurative language characteristic of poetry
Word origin
[1835–45]This word is first recorded in the period 1835–45. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: basic, communism, faceplate, hot plate, serial
Examples of 'prose poem' in a sentence
prose poem
And never more mightily than during this prose poem, possibly.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
Since nothing much happens in this family memoir, her book is a prose poem to a private idyll.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
Her lyrical descriptions of the changing landscape under the evolving daylight, and the calm lucidity of her writing, transformed the novella into a prose poem.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
Debates about the difference between a short story and a prose poem or a novella.
The Times Literary Supplement (2018)
But then the walls melt and the players sit in a row, reciting an antiphonal prose poem that parodies modern preoccupations.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
His 'magus' voice is there in the incantatory rhetoric of his prose poems.
The Times Literary Supplement (2010)
Stylistically, the whole resembles a collection of brief prose poems - an epic of aphorisms.
The Times Literary Supplement (2018)
The book displays an accomplished formal variety, taking in free verse, sonnets, blank verse, dramatic monologues and a series of rather less successful prose poems.
The Times Literary Supplement (2016)
They are lyrical and impressionistic, often foreshadowing the prose poems she went on to write.
The Times Literary Supplement (2012)
Prose poems, soldiers' letters, lyric descriptions and pithy reportage jostle alongside each other, creating a montage of contrasting and unreconciled points of view.