Escritas Breves: O Poema em Prosa

Abstract

Having benefi ted from the fl exibility that emerged with Romantic and Pre-Romantic poetics, which released lyrical poetry from the constraints of verse, the prose poem has ever since been subject to remarkable development. In its closed and unitary architecture it resembles other short writing genres such as the short story. On other occasions, howe ver, it appears to be clearly embedded in the realm of lyrical poetry,