Chocolates

What is the author's style in Chocolates by Louis Simpson?

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"Chocolates" is a narrative poem composed of six free-verse stanzas and told from the point of view of an omniscient narrator. Chocolates is constructed primarily of dialogue and description. Most of the action in the poem takes place in the reported speech. However, Simpson makes use of ellipsis in his transition from one scene to the next. Simpson also makes extensive use of characterization, rather than tell readers what Chekhov and the visitors are like, he shows them.

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