Of course I'm being a little facetious with that "dangerous" bit, but I've been in workshops where someone who seemed a little too invested in good prose writing criticized a poem for containing sentence fragments. Or sometimes you'll encounter someone in workshop who can't get a handle on the lack of regular punctuation in a poem. Those cases seem to be symptoms of taking 'prose rules', which even good prose writers take liberties with, and applying them too rigorously to poetic composition.
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They both need to be taught a lesson.
Of course I'm being a little facetious with that "dangerous" bit, but I've been in workshops where someone who seemed a little too invested in good prose writing criticized a poem for containing sentence fragments. Or sometimes you'll encounter someone in workshop who can't get a handle on the lack of regular punctuation in a poem. Those cases seem to be symptoms of taking 'prose rules', which even good prose writers take liberties with, and applying them too rigorously to poetic composition.
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