You can often hear people say the adverb "prosaically". And this does not apply to the genres of literary creativity - poetry and prose. Today we will analyze the adverb, find out what it means, and most importantly, realize that everyday existence is not so bad.
Meaning
Naturally, to answer the question about the adverb, it is best to look into the explanatory dictionary and find out the meaning of the related adjective. The irreplaceable book tells us that its meaning is as follows: "Everyday, limited by petty worldly interests."
The content of the adjective (and adverb) will be revealed in full force when synonyms are considered. As you can see, the question of what "prosaic" means is not as interesting as why prose fell into such disfavor compared to poetry. But first, synonyms.
Analogues
As a rule, a person already has some lexical baggage when he wants to know the meaning of a particular word. The analogy method is also effective when it comes to learning new adjectives, adverbs, verbs and nouns, so do not hesitateLet's see what are the replacements for the object of study. Here is the list:
- everyday;
- not interested;
- ordinary;
- down to earth.
We hope that now it is clear how prosaic it is, because there is nothing difficult in the question when there is a dictionary at hand.
Why did prose fall out of favor?
This is a difficult question. On the one hand, prose, like poetry, is a kind of literary practice, literary art, and on the other hand, prose has always been on the sidelines compared to poetry. For example, it would never occur to anyone to say about himself: “I am a prose writer!”. But, as we know from practice, every guy at the age of seventeen considers himself a poet, simply rhyming words. Where does this passion come from?
It has long been known that poets are people of the chosen circle, sublime and deeply spiritual. No one wants to be ordinary, and so there is an almost manic passion for versification. Then, of course, the attention of these young men is occupied by more pressing problems, and as adults, they either nostalgically recall their poems or laugh at them, but only a few become professional authors, of course.
There are no rhymes and meter in prose. The word came to us from French, and it got into the language of Baudelaire through Latin, in which it means “free speech”. The full expression is: Prosa oratio. Then only the first word remained.
Reality, even if it resists and turns to the poet with its unsightly side, is ennobled in his work. For example, remember military poetry and military prose, they are different. The latter is much more realistic. Prose is sometimes needed for those phenomena that cannot be described in poetry because of the limitations of the genre. In prose, you can write "it was raining", "there was a chair." In poetry, it is also possible, but poetry is still something more sublime. It is possible that the reason is precisely the presence of restrictions in poetry (rhyme, meter, rhythm). Although, of course, the twentieth century has changed a lot in art, the language does not always have time to keep up with the changes. And besides, poetry wins over prose in terms of sublimity, one way or another. The linguistic tradition is unfair: everything boring, uninteresting, everyday is given to prose, and everything sublime, admiring, bewitching is given to poetry.
When a person mentions that his work is boring, he says the following: "Yes, there is no poetry, creativity in it." One might think that prose creativity does not exist in nature. Discrimination comes to the point where you can hear: "Yes, this is a very poetic novel." That is, the poetic style is a measure of literary in general. Prosaic is not what you need, even when it comes to, pardon the tautology, prose.
Prosaic existence is not always bad
Now you can easily and naturally answer the question: “Who is a prosaic person?” The reader, even without our help, will formulate something like this: "This is a person who is closed within the limits of everyday, domestic interests and concerns." Anything can be extracted from this lapidary definition. Moreover, it cannot be said that such people do not have spiritual needs. Maybethere are, but they do not go beyond the generally accepted. In other words, such a person lives prosaically - it means boring, uninteresting. In his life there is no place for impulse, fiction, fantasy, poetry!
But to protect the layman and ordinary citizen, let's say: a prosaic existence is not so bad. Let us recall, for example, Viktor Nekrasov's wonderful work "In the Trenches of Stalingrad". In it, the main character, lying in a soldier's dugout, thinks about how ephemeral everyday life really is. He used to quarrel with the baker about bread, wanted some suits, ties, and certainly to the theater on weekends, but now he has enough of hot noodles in a pot and a dugout. And now the hero thinks, is it really possible after the war that same everyday life that was before? He finds it incredible.
Therefore, everyday life is not always evil, sometimes, on the contrary, it is something that a person strives for with all his heart.
