Oxford asks prospective students: "Would you rather be a novel or a poem?" so i'm asking you...which would you rather be and why?

Good question!

***thinking about it*** Would I rather be a dope poem that people never forget, that maybe some person in love would recite to his / her love...or maybe a student would have to memorize for a class project..

OR

Would I rather be a novel?

I would rather be a novel. Because novels connect with you in a different way. They kind of move in with you, into your home, into your body and spirit. They work on you over a longer period of time, and connect with each person in a different way. Novels and poems engage the senses, but the novel has more time to do it (with the exception of an epic poem). Both of them have plots, both of them have twists...but a novel has more suspense, characters, incidents. The endings are more memorable... They almost become people. You hear about books that save peoples lives, change peoples lives, and so on....A poem is cool, but it lives its moment and then is replaced by another great one fast. A novel lives forever and if its really good develops a circle of readers that like to talk about it, analyze it and look forward to the next one. That's my brainstorming out loud. Yep - I'd rather be a novel.