He adopted the decadent style favoured by gothic and macabre poets including Thomas Lovell Beddoes, Count Stenbock, James Thomson (B.V.), H. P. Lovecraft, and the German Bonaventura. A classmate of fellow poet Wallace Stevens, Park Barnitz was a visionary who prefigured modernism in his adoption of new paradigms and literary styles as a form of mask. This turn has been seen as matching his intellectual cynicism and misanthropy.
Park Barnitz's adoption of the ornate style of gothic and macabre poets such as Thomas Lovell Beddoes, Count Stenbock, James Thomson (B.V.), H. P. Lovecraft, and the German Bonaventura has been interpreted as a reflection of his intellectual skepticism and disdain for humanity. As a classmate of Wallace Stevens, Barnitz was a visionary poet who anticipated modernism by embracing innovative styles and literary approaches.