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universe until Milton’s Paradise Lost . Even written language had
resisted for two centuries the abstract visual order of lineal
succession and vanishing point. The next age after Marvell,
however, took to landscape poetry and the subordination of
language to special visual effects.
But Marvell concluded his reverse strategy for the
conquest of bourgeois clock-time with the observation
Thus, though we cannot make our sun
Stand still, yet we will make him run.
He proposed that his beloved and he should transform
themselves into a cannonball and fire themselves at the sun to
make it run. Time can be defeated, as it were, by reversal of its
characteristics if only it be speeded up enough. Experience of