Caught this sonnet online some time ago by Leland Jamieson. http://www.ascentaspirations.ca/acronesadvice.htm
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The contrast, at the turn, is obviously sharply realized. The idea is a chestnut -- the old revered over the modern -- but it's the language, and the clever, sardonic juxtapositions of image and meaning, that energizes the lines in a poetic etymology, if you will.
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