According to Crosman, "W. H Auden , in his preface cites sonnet 15 as proof that the sonnets are not in chronological order." However, he goes on to state that "Sonnet 12 through 15 stages little dramas in which the poet worries about the impact on himself of the young man's dying without making a copy of himself; the last of these 15 develops a strategy for dealing with this worry—the poet will make copies of his beloved in verse." This idea is further propelled by Schoenfeldt who claims that "The poet pledges to "engraft young man new" (ll. 13–14) in his verse. While brave states are commonly worn "out of memory", the poet "war with time" in order to perpetuate the memory of the young man (ll. 8, 13). In other words the poet emerges and an alternative memory technology to that of reproduction. Still, the speaker acknowledges that even this new solution is imperfect: Alison V. Scott explains that the "poet-speaker repeatedly addresses the problem that art cannot render a perfect 'copy' of the young man, and this observation impinges upon his promise to immortalize his beloved in verse."