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I think a poem should still sound like it belongs to its time period, even if it's alluding to an older poem.
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I understand this and very often I'd agree. I think this poem is attempting to sound out of time in its language, however, rather than contemporary. I think, too, that even in 1922 Eliot's use of "Alas" in The Hollow Men was, if not humorous at least deliberately melodramatic.
But I know what you're getting at.