Writing poems and essays had different writing styles and requirements, so there would be different writing difficulties. Writing poetry required the use of rich imagination and language skills to construct unique artistic conception and images to express one's emotions and thoughts. There were a few points to note when writing poetry: 1. Language skills: The language of a poem needs to have a unique beauty and expressiveness. It requires the use of rich rhetorical techniques and metaphor to express emotions and thoughts. 2. Construction of artistic conception: Poetry needs to construct a unique artistic conception to express emotions and thoughts. It needs to be grasped from details, colors, atmosphere, and so on. 3. Personalized expression: Poetry needs to express unique emotions and thoughts. It needs to express its own personal charm in a unique language. In contrast, writing prose required one to focus on facts and logic, and express emotions and thoughts through narration and description. There were a few points to note when writing prose: 1. Logicality: Prose should pay attention to facts and logic. False or contradictory information should not appear. 2. Language expression: Prose needs to pay attention to the accuracy and clarity of language expression. There must be no ambiguity or ambiguity in the language. 3. Unity of style: Prose needs to maintain a unified style and cannot be inconsistent. Therefore, it was easy to write poetry but difficult to write prose mainly because poetry needed to rely on rich imagination and language skills, while prose needed to focus on facts and logic and maintain a unified style. Different writing styles and requirements would also lead to different writing difficulties.