So it is a different relationship. Not if I can get out of it. Prose is not designed for that, and it is so hard to pick a little piece out of a novel. The scenes are only dramatic in context. It just seems pointless, although I do it when I am forced to.
Poetry is designed to be read.
It is an arrangement of sounds and silences. It has its most vital being when the sounds are actually being said. It works to the eye and there are a lot of people who enjoy it and do not hear it, but they will never realize, in a sense, how well it is crafted if they don't hear it in their heads. Poetry that isn't well crafted comes apart when you try to say it, and you see how it isn't put together. I don't read it immediately because I have to let go.