Dirt_Owl [comrade/them, they/them] to askchapo • edit-22 years agoWhy are old stories like Beowulf and Paradise Lost called poems?message-squaremessage-square32 fedilinkarrow-up131file-text
arrow-up131message-squareWhy are old stories like Beowulf and Paradise Lost called poems?Dirt_Owl [comrade/them, they/them] to askchapo • edit-22 years agomessage-square32 Commentsfedilinkfile-text
minus-squareMichel_FouBro [none/use name]hexbear10·edit-22 years agoback then, people were just really fucking stupid, and didn't understand the difference between prose and poetry (does it rhyme???). but the works were called poems, and by convention, the descriptions have stuck w/ us ever since. link
minus-squareThomas_Dankara [any,comrade/them]hexbear5·2 years ago back then, people were just really fucking stupid, and didn’t understand the difference between prose and poetry good bit link
back then, people were just really fucking stupid, and didn't understand the difference between prose and poetry (does it rhyme???). but the works were called poems, and by convention, the descriptions have stuck w/ us ever since.
good bit