Let’s talk about how WH Auden ended an elegy with metalepsis and wrecked time for a dead man.
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“In the prison of his days Teach the free man how to praise.” It is the teaching of praise, presumably, that is to free the prisoner; and yet he is already free in the sentence where the poet is commanded to free him.
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His other famous elegy, of course, begins “stop all the clocks.” For Yeats, as it turns out, Auden did one better than he did even for his lover. He did not only stop the clocks, he praised, then reversed and ruined time in memory, and in praise. Gorgeous.
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