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Original poem reprinted online here:   "Elegy" by Vijay Seshadri Originally read: October 29, 2013 More information about the Poet: Vijay Seshadri Outside in, inside out.  The poem plays with perspective while maintaining the first person.  The first person is important here because this is someone noticing something rather than the scene being described in general. "I've been asked to instruct you about the town you've gone to, / where I've never been."  With these lines, the speaker sets up the premise.  Already the introduced dimensions in which the speaker is the "instructor" but hasn't experienced the same thing the other has.  It all seems like study and then saying what has been studied to the other.      The cathedral is worth looking at      but the streets are narrow, uneven, and a little grim.      The river is sluggish in the summer and muddy in the spring.      The cottage industries a...