I. Definition
Until the nineteenth century the idea that a poem could be written in prose would have seemed an absurdity, as the very idea of poetry was linked to the factory of worms. Though it is the prose poem exists and the question of poetry and its specificity. Some criteria are needed immediately to define the prose poem is presented as a short text and self, by its polysemy or intense recreational use and aesthetic it makes language.
II. Brevity, self
The first collections of poems in prose in fact represent a succession of short texts closed on themselves. The prose of Gaspard de la nuit by Aloysius Bertrand (1852) are easily recognized in that they fit on one page and is structured into short paragraphs that suggest as many units.
The Spleen de Paris Baudelaire (poems written between 1855 and 1864) already poses more problems, some texts reach the dimensions of a new approach and it also by their subject (" The generous player, "for example). In the letter to Arsene Houssaye where Baudelaire defines what he wanted to do, he writes: "Chop it into many pieces and you will see that each can exist separately." Evidence that the law is autonomous. Suzanne Bernard
distinguish two major trends in the development of the prose poem. Let the poem is structured hyper, hyper worked, or it is composed in a somewhat unpredictable freely.
It quickly compare two texts, revealing two modes of existence:
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