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I'd have to disagree. Unless the lines were written as a poem and is incidentally part of the novel, then projecting the status of something on to an object conceived as another thing, does not make it so. Are the lines poetic? Sure, but the adjective does not create the noun. For example, a woman with stringy hair, does not have hair made of string because I described her hair that way.

There are a whole lot of very poetic novels and a whole lot of novelistic poems, but each remains what the writer originally conceived and executed them as, despite the projections of their readers. A good writer to look at for this would be Denis Johnson, who is an excellent poet and a very good fiction writer.