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Originally Posted by tompe
What it says is: "Traditionally, fiction includes novels, short stories, fables, fairy tales, plays, poetry, but it now also encompasses films, comic books, and video games."
I have always thought that a written text considered as a work was either fiction or non-fiction. So I do not see how nearly all poetry can be anything else than fiction.
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Aside from epic poems which tell a story about a hero i.e. El Cid, Beowulf, Roland, Odysseus, etc. most poetry is about abstract ideas such as love, beauty and the like. Fiction tells a story with a clear cut beginning, middle and end. "I think that I shall never see a poem lovely as a tree..." doesn't tell a story about a particular tree or have the classic story structure. For most intents and purposes prose and poetry are two different things.