Poetry is the renewal of words, setting them free, and that's what a poet is doing: loosening the words.
The later rain,--it falls in anxious haste Upon the sun-dried fields and branches bare, Loosening with searching drops the rigid waste, As if it would each root's lost strength repair.
There were several points where I would kind of turn to the book and say, "Get thee behind me. " I don't think real novelists do that. But I make a distinction between prose that's very efficiency-minded (like, the minimum I can get away with), versus loosening the screws and letting the words spill out beautifully and so on.
John Lott has done the most extensive, thorough and sophisticated study we have on the effects of loosening gun control laws.
Harry witnessed Professor McGonagall walking right past Peeves who was determinedly loosening a crystal chandelier and could have sworn he heard her tell the poltergeist out of the corner of her mouth 'It unscrews the other way.