Propinquities of Simple and Complex

I've said before that my natural inclination is to express an idea complexly first and then simply after, but that I'd prefer to do it the other way around. But Chomsky does it this way around, and he seems quite clear. On the other hand, Shelley does it the other way around, and he does so paradoxically: the simple idea is followed by a kind of essay seed, and once you resolve it in your mind you end up with the simple idea that he started with, and are a bit annoyed to discover that you forgot the simple idea after all and that Shelley got there first and was just teasing all along. But I suppose he wants you to prove it for yourself.

But perhaps I'm just imagining it. People write quickly... At any rate, I'm not sure how to collapse that superposition of simple and complex in prose now, when it becomes necessary. It's not as simple a subject as "Avoid gerunds and adverbs", and "Put the important parts of a sentence at its extremeties": I guess it's more a matter of style.