Speak Memory - Journal Assignment - "Power" - Poem vs. prose

The way I look at "Power" is that it provides you the "meat" of the story in a condensed form. As is discussed in the text, in order to get your point across in a narrative poem, you need to provide much rich description in order to engage the reader. In prose you have the ability to slowly and intricately build up to your conflict and conclusion; in a narrative poem you need to almost drop the reader right into the action at the beginning. One thing that I think is added by telling the story as poetry is that you are more likely to keep the reader engaged as, for the most part, you hit the ground running vs. the aforementioned buildup where you run the risk of losing the reader along the way.

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for me, the most significant difference here is word economy