Can someone please help me. I am clueless. I have to read a Prose writing in front of the class tomarrow. I have no idea what to get or what prose really is. Basically the way kids were saying is that its everything but poems. She showed us an example and it was from some book. So is prose just regular writing? Could I just look at a book and get the first few paragraphs? Could someone give me an example or anything like that.

While were on this topic I also have to do a demonstration speach here next friday so does anyone have any ideas? Has to be something that we can do in the classroom. It also has to last 5-8 minutes. I have no clue as to what to do.

 

I have posted an example of prose writing for you. Its basically anything written in the way you would normally speak...

 

So I could do anything? Like bring in a paragraph or 2 of a book?

 

I would think so... Just don't read any Faulkner...

 

Oh dear God.

 

What?

 

Think of prose as a poem translated into another language.

In the original language, the poem had a focus and rhymed with a beat.

When the poem is translated into another language, the only thing you should be concerned about is the 'Focus'. You give up on the beat and rhyme.

If you try to apply a beat and rhyme of another language, you will surely destroy the focus or meaning of the poem.

I've like to think of prose as what the Beatniks were doing in the coffee houses back in the fifties. There was little rhyme, unsteady beat, but all focus. Yeah they were stoned but, focused.
When the 'poet' finished, there was no applause, the audience snapped their fingers in approval.
How cool was that?

 

Kobi gets a little nervous and/or worked up when grammar or literature based topics come up. Given our propensity toward butchering our native language his unease is understandable.

He was hospitalized once when reading a thread that Mattineer was heavily involved in.

Heck I did it once with the "Does this sentance[sic] make sense" thread.