Distinctive Poetic Language in Shakespeare's Othello

"While practical speech facilitates access to information by making language as transparent as possible, poetic speech contorts and roughens up ordinary language and submits it to what Roman Jakobsen called 'organized violence,' and it is this roughening up of ordinary language into torturous 'formed speech' that makes poetry poetry rather than a weather report" (p. 4 from Literary Theory: An Anthology).

"To mourn a mischief that is past and gone 

Is the next way to draw new mischief on

What cannot be preserved, when fortune takes,

Patience her injury a mockery makes.

The robbed that smiles steals something from the thief;

He robs himself that spends a bootless grief" (Othello p. 20).

When I first read this particular passage in Shakespeare, I was piqued by it. Not only did this passage contain successive couplets and look like an Italian Octave, it was clear to me that it was a highly elegant way to say that acceptance of loss will end suffering. If you look at the first quote, essentially it tells us that poetic language warps speech in such a way that it "roughens up ordinary language" and is  not concerned with making language "as transparent as possible". Shakespeare simply could  have stated, "One must endure and happily accept loss if one desires to eliminate suffering" but that would not have been poetry. This is an example of formed speech. Shakespeare is not trying to give simple and quick access to the meaning in this passage; he is not attempting to inform the audience directly of pertinent information, he is using poetic language to express the concept of how one can eliminate suffering despite a loss.