The 3 Fates
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- Created on: 21-12-20 10:52
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- The 3 Fates
- Title
- Clotho, Lachesis, Astropos
- Responsible for human destiny
- Configured as weavers, spinning the tapestry of time
- What's It About?
- Drowning man pleads for eternal life, and is forced to relive his past over and over again in reverse order
- The man cannot change the past, rewrite his story or alter the woven pattern of his life
- Ideas + Imagery
- 'He watched her'
- Visual imagery - he us watchung a girl he loves
- 'Drowning'
- How did he end up there? Suicide? Accident?
- 'Came up like a cork'
- Imagery of something shooting straight back out of the water - corks are buoyant
- Foreshadows the hollow + weightless life he will have
- Imagery of something shooting straight back out of the water - corks are buoyant
- 'He watched her'
- Themes
- Art
- Nature
- Mortality
- Permanence of the past
- Structure
- Reverse chronology
- Irregular structure
- Chaos / disorder
- Freedom / natural ease
- Caesura - Breaking / disorder
- Tercets
- Matches the three fates + the concepts of the middle, beginning and end
- Enjambment, S1 L2 makes reader wonder what he wishes for
- Shortening lines which shows time running out / life receding
- Poem mirrors life rolling backwards
- Rhythm, Repetition + Rhyme
- 'At the instat ... sisters'
- Repetition of the t sounds contributes to the energetic, turbulent atmosphere
- ''Mistake ... everlasting'
- Repeating st sound - the mixture of the sharp t consonance and hissing sibilance create a sinister tone and vividly evoking the image of the man sturggling for his life in the water
- Repetition of 'instant'
- Idea of playing with time
- 'At the instat ... sisters'
- Language
- 'Like a cork' - simile shows powerlessness and oblivion
- 'Put on ... order' - adverbial phrase suggests entire life is now running in reverse
- 'Barefoot' - sense of innocence, naivety and happiness
- 'morning' - the tragedy of the situation is underscored with the homonym mourning
- 'reel unrolling towards river'
- Assonance - creates an agressive / worrying mood
- 'When she was gone'
- The adverb when shows the inevitability of an end, even though it is now a beginning
- 'house' - suggests domestic life
- 'swing' - suggests symbol of youth and innocence
- 'enormous agonies of passion' - hyperbole
- See completed work undone - anxiety, procrastination
- Title
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