Though it's true that the elements that make up a writer's style aren't always a matter of choice, let's imagine, for a moment, that they are. What is gained, and what is lost in the choice of a particular style of writing?
The idea that the content of a piece of writing can be altered or affected through the writer’s ‘choice’ of style is, to me, greatly what this course is about. After all, we have been trying to bridge the gap (or, at least locate the bridge.) between poetry and philosophy. However in some sense, I feel like what we’ve uncovered is the fact that poetry and philosophy often try to do the same thing; have the same goals, just through different styles, which have unquestionably affected their audience. (Or lack thereof.) It is undeniable that a writers’ style influences the readers connection to that writer’s work. For example, in Sein’s Tender Buttons, the author begins naming seemingly arbitrary items and divides the items into three categories; Objects, Rooms, and Food.
A PAPER.

A courteous occasion makes a paper show no such occasion and this makes readiness and eyesight and likeness and a stool.

A DRAWING.

The meaning of this is entirely and best to say the mark, best to say it best to show sudden places, best to make bitter, best to make the length tall and nothing broader, anything between the half.

WATER RAINING.

Water astonishing and difficult altogether makes a meadow and a stroke.

COLD CLIMATE.

A season in yellow sold extra strings makes lying places.

MALACHITE.

The sudden spoon is the same in no size. The sudden spoon is the wound in the decision.

Immediately the reader begins reading this list of items, and tries to make sense of it. It is almost as though Stein set up the poem as a recipe; each item holds importance and needs to be used to create something larger, and it is up to the reader to discover what they can make with the given objects. IF this poem was set up in more of a traditional style, like we saw in Steven, the words would seem somewhat less urgent and mysterious. Less of a puzzle for the reader to solve.