: Re: How can I incorporate poetry techniques to improve my prose? My first question on the site was How do I stop using 'the' to start sentences so much? , One of the answers said:

I noticed you said in the comment to that answer that you are not a fan of poetry. Perhaps the main characteristic of poetry that you might employ is brevity. My favourite definition of poetry is concentrated prose.

In verse, each word and its placement is important and most carefully chosen.

What I would suggest is read books that are written beautifully, have profound thoughts and see how they did it. My favourite novels wax poetic on occasion and those tend to be the passages that I savour. Victor Hugo writing about Paris, coloured by a deep love for that city and a nostalgia, is sheer brilliance.

One aspect of poetry that you could incorporate in prose is treating words like music, choosing them for sound, beauty and meaning. Poetry is meant to be read aloud. If your prose sounds good to your ear, it probably flows well.

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