I sometimes think the "plain style" is taken too far - I think so. I recently grabbed this quote from somewhere
'Why imitate "speech"?' since we have less awareness of the impositions of speech patterns, [Robert Grenier] argues that they form a constraint less obvious and so more confining than, say, an iambic pentameter.
To me it's part of the game, like hiding your rhymes or your learning. Fear of being considered a show-off, an elitist, a 'Poet'? A belief that understatement is sophisticated, that "Natural" is better?
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