The following two examples present the different stylistic effects produced by different selection of words. (1) Hiroshima: a city (pop. 542 000) of Honshu, Japan. It was largely destroyed by an American atomic bomb (6 Aug. 1945), the first used in warfare. After reconstruction the city became an active port, with paper and canning industries. (2) Hiroshima My spoon was lifted when the bomb came down That left no face, no hand, no spoon to hold. Two hundred thousand died in my hometown, This came to pass before my soup was cold. In terms of ( ) , example (1) is a geographical description, a dictionary entry, and example (2) is a poem.