Novels and poems are read in a prescribed temporal sequence, whereas a picture has no clear place at which to start viewing, or at which to finish.

人们会按既定的时间顺序阅读小说和诗歌，但一幅画却没有明确的让人开始或结束欣赏的地方。

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He wrote many famous novels, plays, poems.

他写了许多著名的小说、戏剧和诗歌。

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Himalayas Reading has millions of books including poems, short stories, novels, and even fairy tales for children.

喜玛拉雅阅读公司提供了数以百万计的书籍，包括诗歌、短篇故事、小说甚至给孩子看的童话。

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Because I've always believed stories are closer to poems than novels, I spend a lot of time on the story's larger rhythms, such as sentence and paragraph length, placement of flashbacks and dialogue.

WSJ: Ron Rash, Author of Serena and Nothing Gold Can Stay, on Inspiration | Word Craft

Over a period of more than half a century, Bukowski, who was born in Germany and brought to America at the age of three, chronicled, in poems and novels, his life as a drifter and a drunk as he lurched through the mean streets of Los Angeles.

ECONOMIST: New verse

In a market economy they find it harder to get their novels and poems published than they ever did during the communist era.

ECONOMIST: Mass distraction in Poland