Hour
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- Created on: 07-04-13 15:35
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- Hour
- Personal response
- Midas's gift became a curse to him. Does this affect what you think about the poem? Yes it may mean it is perfect while it lasts, but it will end badly.
- Why do you think the poet uses personification in the poem? He personifies time to show how they want it to last forever.
- Why do you think the poet wrote this as a form of sonnet? It is a love poem thereofre wrote it in the structure of a love song
- Feelings and attitudes
- Cherishing the moment- love is felt to be precious and valuble
- Strong belief- The poem expresses faith that love isn't bound by time
- Physical pleasure- love isn't just the idealised, pure devotion of some traditional poems, but also the real and physical- like lying in a ditch kissing.
- About
- This poem describes an hour spent between the narrator and her lover. The poet personifies time as loves enemy, but in this perfect moment love almost manages to stop time.
- Comparison
- Ghazal/ The Manhunt / Sonnet 116/ To his coy mistress/ Sonnet 116/ In Paris with you
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