I agree with Roger and I'm afraid I have to agree with Michael as well. What is this RULE anyway?
By coincidence, I was looking through Larkin's Collected
Poems again last night and was struck by how often, in his mature poems, and considering his "ordinary bloke" persona, he invoked the moon, but always in a fresh way and to the advantage of the poem. If your point is "use only with caution" or "with originality" I would agree with you, but I would hate to think of there being a "Rule".
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