Sri Aurobindo

Letters on Poetry and Art

SABCL - Volume 27

Part 1. Poetry and its Creation
Section 3. Poetic Technique
Substance, Style, Diction

Oxymoron

An oxymoron often necessitates what you call echolalia — e.g.

For good like this can be

An obstacle against the highest Good

And light itself denial of the Light.

Whether such things make good poetry or not is a matter of opinion.

28 January 1934