What is the antonym for poetry?

Answer 1

It's an interesting literary question. I would venture that advertising is the antonym to poetry. Even when the poet's motive is to impress others for personal gain, the purpose of the poem itself is always to convey an emotional sensation or a metaphysical contemplation as effectively as it can, and get the reader to share the feeling. The aesthetic of the writing is therefore the primary importance.

Whereas poetry directs the reader's attention toward the poem itself and often toward the voice in the poem, advertisements try to direct attention not to the writing, but toward the product or service. In advertising, of first importance is to sell the product or service, with the aesthetic of the writing being secondary. Moreover, in most effective advertising writing, the reader forms no or little impression at all of the writer.

Journalism could also be considered, but advertising is even further from poetry than journalism, because there is some artistic value held within the journalist community for the style, directness and objectivity in news features. Advertisers are concerned with reader impressions of the product or service, steering away from the writing itself.

The three forms of writing as I understand them are poetry, prose (which would include advertising, as well as most kinds of published writing other than poetry), and notation. Poetry is distinguished from the other two forms by the feature of the line break. The principal distinguishing feature of poetry is the integrity of the line break. That is, the spatial and visual appearance of the poem on the page is the fundamental feature that allows the poetic techniques of rhythm and pacing to be evident in reading. Prose can have everything else that poems have: metaphors, similes, rhymes, rhythmic language, all that stuff. However, once the writer is purposely deciding where the lines end in order to create a structure of rhythm and pace, the work is no longer prose and has technically become poetic.

The one thing that makes any selection from any kind of poetry (even free verse) different from any kind of prose is that poetry must be reproduced or republished using the exact same line breaks, or else it is considered altered. Prose writing just goes to the end of the writing space and wraps around and may be faithfully reproduced without regard for where the lines reach the end of the page.

Although prose is different to poetry in technique, perhaps I would not put it as strongly as an 'antonym' to poetry. There is no antonym in technique to poetry, only difference, and the antonym to poetry in intent is advertising.

Answer 2

Prose is the antonym for poetry. Poetry is typically characterized by metrical rhythm, rhyme, and expressive language, while prose is written or spoken language in its ordinary form without a metrical structure.

Answer 3

There isn't really one word that is the antonym of rhymes. It would be something like "doesn't rhyme" or "words that don't rhyme."

Answer 4

An antonym for poem is "prose."

Answer 5

The antonym for poetry is advertising

Answer 6

words that don't end with the same suffix

Answer 7

There is no antonym for the word, "Poem".