The prose is the ordinary form of the verbal expression.

Direction

The Latin origin (de" family; prodeo" and " prorsus") its direction defines: the " prosa oratio" is the expression, written or oral, which goes from before in opposition to the towards which reverses (" versus") according to a rhythmic choice which note the page layout.

" All that is not prose is towards and all that is not towards is prose" Molière, the middle-class man gentleman

Applying to the common expression, the word prose can have a pejorative direction (example: " prose administrative"). It also meets in a metaphorical employment to indicate something of banal and without relief; what expresses the adjective " prosaïque".

The prose, used in all the literary kinds, can of course seem a true stylistic work going until poetic prose as at Rousseau, Chateaubriand or Giono…

The prose poem

The Poème in prose is a rather free manner to be expressed (unequal worms, not rhyme, not of stanza,…) while employing processes stylistics which mark the capacity of the author in his poetic work. The most known example is the Spleen of Paris of Baudelaire, which remains a rather special example because its work is not entirely regarded as small prose poems.

Francis Ponge proposes the term of proème to qualify its poetry written in prose.

Of aillor alone Francis Ponge proposes prose poems having a certain rythmicity (bread).

Liturgy

In the history of the Liturgical Music , the word " prose" indicate at the 6th century a canticle with the alternate verses then, after coding, with the 14th century, a Latin Hymne sung with the solemn masses (example the Dies irae).

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