Roman satirists like Juvenal use ecce iterum — here we go again — to signal the return of the same old vices in the same old forms; the satirist's weariness a form of comic moral authority; A poet keeping a verse journal might use ecce iterum to mark the recurrence of familiar emotions — the annual return of grief on an anniversary, the familiar pattern of anxiety in a new situation; Philip Larkin's poetry has an ecce iterum quality — the rueful recognition of familiar human folly, one's own included, recurring with depressing regularity; A student might write an ecce iterum poem about a recurring personal pattern — a habit they cannot break, a mistake they keep making, a feeling that returns despite all efforts to be done with it; W.H. Auden's satirical poems have an ecce iterum dimension — the eternal return of human weakness, political stupidity, and moral evasion observed with a mixture of despair and dark humor