This lack of color is reflected in Jin's quiet, careful, restrained prose — prose whose absence of flourish can, at times, make it all the more eloquent.
This accounts for the variety of labels given to the fu in English by writers on Chinese literature poetic prose, rhyme prose, prose poem, rhapsody, and prose poetry.
He sometimes seems to have misread Mario Cuomo's famous guidance: he governs in prose and campaigns in prose.
Second, rants happen in prose, and often ugly, spluttery prose.
Presidents always campaign in poetry and govern in prose, but the prose doesn't have to be chilly Latin!
The more fastidious ones, the ones that actually try to give equivalents for Dante's words, are in prose, because in prose the translator doesn't have to sacrifice accuracy to such considerations as rhyme and rhythm.
Prose poem, a work in prose that has some of the technical or literary qualities of a poem (such as regular rhythm, definitely patterned structure, or emotional or imaginative heightening) but that is set on a page as prose.
His poetry attracted little interest at the time, but his influence on the Symbolists at the end of the century was acknowledged by Charles Baudelaire in his Petits poèmes en prose (1869; "Little Poems in Prose"), later titled Le Spleen de Paris.
The range of themes in the posthumously edited Petits Poèmes en prose (1868; "Short Poems in Prose") is similar to that of Les Fleurs du mal, though the balance is different: urban landscapes, the ambivalent relationship of artist and crowd, and the degradations of urban poverty are given more space than is love.
Raine's specialty is lapses in prose.
