Besides the intrinsic limitation of the analytic approach needed to proceed how could be poetic ways of thinking distinguished from prosaic ways of thinking?

Good poets tend to look at the universal--even in microscopic topics--which makes their readers see themselves and others in the ideas ideally presented in verse. Prose stylists of note do the same but in everday language. Those who think prosaically often have a very narrow perception of "What's in it for me?" or "How does this affect me?" In other Words, they are not thinking universally, but very personally and mundanely to the here and now affecting one individual instead of poetically to all people of all times.