What is the difference between a poem and a story?
What is the difference between a poem and a story?
I have to write a fairly lenthy poem for a class,
and I am writing, but my writing seems to be more like a story than a poem..what can I do to make it sound more like a poem?
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Answer by StarlessJoy
poems have a rhythm, even if free verse, while a story doesn’t. Although, a lot of stories are written in poem…
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Write in the 1ST person. A Poem IS a Story, just a short one. You can add depth in the sense of having ‘been there’, hence in the 1ST person. Also, the subject matter can be stitched and restitched throughout the story – err, poem. Best of luck to you.
A story has plot, theme and character development. A poem should have devices like meter, alliteration, rhyme, verse, etc. although not every device is used in every poem. Also a poem expresses emotion and doesn’t necessarily have a beginning, middle, and end as does a rational story.
In my opinion the only difference between a poem and a story is that the style in which you write it. Plus, you use short descriptive style sentences. Where in a story you would describe every detail of scene, persons, etc.
In a poem you stick to one subject and use those descriptive words to describe it.
To me a good poem is a story only shorter.
But then that’s how I write. My poems always tell some kind of a story. They get something across to the reader just like a story does.
Hope this helps.
Ok some times a poem is a story, but the difference is that a story has a ton of detail, but a poem is like a story that skips the detail and puts it in a rhyme. Of course the biggest difference in a story and poem to me is stories can be written for fun or whatever, but a poem is generally written out of emotions. So try to find something that makes you want to write it.