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Robert Pinsky has written a short essay on the contrast between two styles of conveying distress in poetry for Slate.

In a comparable way, one poem might generate its emotion with eloquent plainness, the force of directness. Another poem might work by turbulent or ecstatic or violent elaboration, the force of eruption. The two classic poems for this week illustrate what I mean.