i am about to start my A level coursework and want to transform a poem into a piece of prose. If there is anyone with ideas they would be greatly welcome thank you very much
What do you mean - saying the same thing as the poem, but using different words and lacking rhythm, meter, metaphor, and other literary devices?
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I would think many contemporary free verse poems could be rendered prose merely by removing the line breaks.
The Garden
Like a skein of loose silk blown against a wall
She walks by the railing of a path in Kensington Gardens,
And she is dying piece-meal
of a sort of emotional anaemia.
And round about there is a rabble
Of the filthy, sturdy, unkillable infants of the very poor.
They shall inherit the earth.
In her is the end of breeding.
Her boredom is exquisite and excessive.
She would like some one to speak to her,
And is almost afraid that I
will commit that indiscretion.
-- Ezra Pound
The Garden
Like a skein of loose silk blown against a wall she walks by the railing of a path in Kensington Gardens, And she is dying piece-meal of a sort of emotional anaemia. And round about there is a rabble of the filthy, sturdy, unkillable infants of the very poor. They shall inherit the earth. In her is the end of breeding. Her boredom is exquisite and excessive. She would like some one to speak to her, and is almost afraid that I will commit that indiscretion.
-- Ezra Pound
I have a text that discusses paraphrasing in which it suggests...
Paraphrase the poem as a whole, or perhaps just the more difficult lines. Put into your own words what you understand the poem to say, restating ideas that seem essential, coming out and stating what the poem may only suggest.
Hope this is of some help to you. Good Luck.
Didja click on the Frost link? Lots of stuff there to help in paraphrasing a famous poem.