Definition Of Prosa Based On Expert

Hallo sahabat blog syuper, this is the definition of “prosa” based on Expert and in last I try to conclude the definition of it. So, semoga bermanfaat, keep enjoy!.

1.     The Establishment of Modern English Prose (1998), Ian Robinson observes that the term prose is "surprisingly hard to define. . . . We shall return to the sense there may be in the old joke that prose is not verse."

2.     (Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Table Talk, July 12, 1827) says that ,  “prose is the words in their best order".

3.     (Molière, Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme, 1671) says that, “All that is not prose is verse; and all that is not verse is prose”. 

4.     (John Cheever, on accepting the National Medal for Literature, 1982)  says that,  " prose is where one hears the rain and the noise of battle. It has the power to give grief or universality that lends it a youthful beauty."

5.     (Jeremy Bentham, quoted by M. St. J. Packe in The Life of John Stuart Mill, 1954)  says that, "Prose is when all the lines except the last go on to the end. Poetry is when some of them fall short of it." 

6.     (Governor Mario Cuomo, New Republic, April 8, 1985)  says that, "You campaign in poetry. You govern in prose." 

7.     (George Orwell, "Why I Write," 1946)  says that, "one can write nothing readable unless one constantly struggles to efface one's own personality. Good prose is like a window pane."

8.     (Richard Lanham, Analyzing Prose, 2nd ed. Continuum, 2003)  says that, "Our ideal prose, like our ideal typography, is transparent: if a reader doesn't notice it, if it provides a transparent window to the meaning, then the prose stylist has succeeded. But if your ideal prose is purely transparent, such transparency will be, by definition, hard to describe. You can't hit what you can't see. And what is transparent to you is often opaque to someone else. Such an ideal makes for a difficult pedagogy."

9.     (John Gross, Introduction to The New Oxford Book of English Prose. Oxford Univ. Press, 1998) says that, "Prose is the ordinary form of spoken or written language: it fulfills innumerable functions, and it can attain many different kinds of excellence. A well-argued legal judgment, a lucid scientific paper, a readily grasped set of technical instructions all represent triumphs of prose after their fashion. And quantity tells. Inspired prose may be as rare as great poetry--though I am inclined to doubt even that; but good prose is unquestionably far more common than good poetry. It is something you can come across every day: in a letter, in a newspaper, almost anywhere."

10.                        (UK ESSAY) says that “Prose is a type of epic literature that is written in lines. Usually sentences in prose continuous in that line, not in another one. Some authors (writers) say that writing prose is the best form of writing, because words are in their best order”.

Conclusion: I think, Prosa is ordinary language people use in speaking and writing, and it provides a transparent window to the meaning.