These strands are: She moves on to lament the loss of many forms or genres of poetry that were widely used in earlier times, including satire, the epistle, georgic, pastoral, allegory, philosophical poem, epic, verse drama, and tragedy, and quotes an essay by Australian poet A. D. Hope: "One after another the great forms disappear".
[3] Kinzie sees free verse as the "great equalizer" and ushering in an age of reduced scope and ambition.
The new prosaic-lyrical effusion is organized to get us into and out of the poem with extraordinary rapidity and no lasting effects."
Kinzie proceeds to identify three main contemporary "substyles" of the prosaic-rhapsodic: Kinzie describes the Objective Style as gaining its effects from "the cumulative effect of a string of brief, bland declarative sentences".
In the Mixed Ironic Style the poet injects into the work a "stylistic agitation that at first feel rich, sensitive, conscious, attentive to response".