Last August Hours Before The Year 2000 Summary

New ideas derived from self-reflection enable us to develop in ways that are spiritually linked to the future. The inexorable passage of adulthood is established by the motif of time, indicating that life is continuously moving forward. The personification of time “guiltless minute hand” suggest that time is not responsible for our future, but we are. Additionally, the dysphemistic personification of “time was killed” foreshadows the cessation of childhood. Eventually, the

The poem "Clocks and Lovers" by W. H. Auden’s contrasts the idea of whether or not love will outlast time. Initially, the poem portrays a lover affirming the belief that love will triumph over time. The poem transitions and depicts the clocks' argument that due to time, love will eventually fade away. The narrator contrasts the two arguments with usage of imagery, personification, tone and diction. The argument that love will prevail over time is contrasted by the belief that as time goes by, time can never be stopped and love will not last. Overall, neither belief is represented as correct because the narrator contrasts the two opposing arguments by displaying that two arguments are incompatible. In regards to their following arguments, time is not as malicious or arduous to love but love is not impervious to time.

He uses this in the poem to give it rhythm to engage the reader and

Dawn revisited is a poem about the new ideas one could have in life and how it is easy to start again if things don’t go too well, as the poem starts with ‘imagine you wake up with a second chance’ which automatically introduces the topic to the reader. The poem is laid-out in a way that – especially ‘hawks his pretty wares’ - gives us an unimaginable image of the beauty of dawn, a description that would want people to manage their time in order to see it. The poet states ‘if you don’t look back the future never happens’ which shows us that one could only learn by making mistakes and that she perhaps learnt from experience and does not want people to miss out on the beauty of nature just like she might have done previously. She suggests

In the poem The Past, Oodgeroo, establishes the importance of growth, identity and the strong link between culture, values and beliefs. It is through this poem that advocates for change in mindsets, while positioning the audience to come to the realisation of the unfortunate events in which had occurred, however, it is through her strong belief and pride in her culture does she promote unity. “let no-one say the past is dead… the past is all about us and within” Through this quote, it personifies history, allowing the audience to gain a deeper insight to values

Thomas Wyatt’s poem of They flee from me provides the central theme of time in two different ways, how time is perceived through the eyes of the speaker and how

“The past is not dead, it is living in us, and will be alive in the future which we are now helping to make.” was what William Morris said, that fully captures the powerful moment of how time causes change, and that time cannot be stopped. This moment was explored in the canto “Personal bullet” by Alistair Te Ariki Campbell. This fully elucidates how powerful the moment in the canto was. Campbell first emphasizes this powerful moment in the title “Personal Bullet.”

Poetic techniques displayed through the ideas, poetic features and style of the poet, reveal concepts which transcend time and place. In Gwen Harwood’s poem “the violets” her ability to interweave past and present emphasises the importance of memory in preserving ones journey though the universal experiences of growth, maturity and mortality. Similarly the poem “Mother who gave me life” demonstrates the memory of motherhood as a timeless quintessential part of the human condition. And lastly In Harwood’s “father and Child”, the connection between the father and son/daughter highlights that transformation throughout childhood is inevitable. Through the content and the language, the ways in which human experiences reveal concepts which

test of time and perfectly encapture the issues and questions of the time period. These poems

This allows the poem to flow with a clear structure which enhances the

Love makes people become selfish, but it is also makes the world greater. In this poem, the world that the speaker lives and loves is not limited in “my North, my South, my East and West / my working week and my Sunday rest” (9-10), it spreads to “My noon, my midnight, my talk, my song (11). The poem’s imagery dominates most of the third stanza giving readers an image of a peaceful world in which everything is in order. However, the last sentence of the stanza is the decisive element. This element not only destroys the inner world of the speaker, but it also sends out the message that love or life is mortal.

While walking through a dark, populated town one evening, the speaker overhears a lover passionately singing by a river to his or her lover of the immortality of love. The speaker then bestows the clocks in the city with a voice in order to demonstrate to the reader the dark truth of the human condition: the time we possess to live remains outside our control and will cause many of our relationships to dissolve through hardship and death. Thus, the speaker utilizes appropriate diction, allusion, and symbolism to contrast the giddy, naive and youthful tone of the lover with the cynical, omniscient and realistic tone of the city clocks. The lover reveals his or her own naivety through a love song.

The performer must then make use of a momentary pause and adjust themselves to begin with the naive, inquisitive, and somewhat desperate tone of a child worried about death. This should mark the beginning of the second stanza, but should not carry on for the rest of the poem. The effect of using this specific tone is to mark the seriousness of the situation for Nye at the time—a time when she was sick and believed herself on the verge of death. However, Nye regards this scene with a lighthearted air, as is evident from when she reveals in

With every end, there is a beginning. When the cold winter ends, there is a new beginning in nature where the trees and flowers start fresh as they grow once again. The poem “Spring”, takes us, readers, to a setting where the place shows complete nature. We are to imagine aesthetic scenery where spring has arrived and everything that happens during this season is happening right in front of us.