The Hebrew Bible, Sophocles' Oedipus the King, the Bhagavad-Gita, the Analects of Confucius, and the Zhuangzi--only Genesis and Exodus from the Hebrew Bible, the Analects of Confucius, and the Zhuangzi were originally written in prose rather in poetry.
However it may be read in English translation, everything else we've read was conceived in poetic form.
What does this suggest about the kinds of texts that require prose? What attitudes toward the reliability of language may be inferred?
In ONE original post, discuss your viewpoint in answering the above questions.