To say that a poet is justified in employing a disintegrating form in
order to express a feeling of disintegration, is merely a sophistical
justification for bad poetry, akin to the Whitmanian notion that one
must write loose and sprawling poetry to "express" the loose and
sprawling American continent.
-- Yvor Winters. From the section "The Heroic Couplet And Its
Recent Revival" of the essay "Poetic Convention" from Primitivism And
Decadence (1937), republished in In Defense Of Reason.