the poem is about how love cannot defeat time because time is an over ruler it has the power to rule nature and will also catch up with love to punish it for its transgression.
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narrative perspective
22''as i walked out one evening''-auden uses first person narrative in which the reader does not convey emotion and is detatched from the lovers making him an outsider and an on looker. with no emotioonal contact we can see how time truly destroys.
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time brings about the bathos in the poem 21
20 to juxtapose the voice of love from the couple time, it is both omniscient and omnipotent
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time could also be autobiographical 19
18 as seen in the quote ''time breaks...divers brilliant bow'' hes talking about how once his father had caught him watching boys at the swimming pool. time is characterised as violent predatorial personified.
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setting 17
16 glacial landscapes are used idea of sublime
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15 form
13 its a ballad rhyme sheme in quatrians which als adds an imabic pentameter which provides it with lyrical ballad making it like a love song.the iambic pentameter then illustartes the yearn for love and the danger of time making it
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11 resonant liek a heart beat to quicken the emotion the bathos the tone
10 to act as a proleptic vision of their eternal damnation
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9 frame narrative
8 auden uses frame narrative to tell the story and the tonee an overheard appears to be an oveheard conversation whivh appears to be full of hyperboliic in which the audience may find it tedious at times but ultimately unrealistic china to africa
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7 changes from past tense to dramatic tense in the present tense
6 this si done with the personification of time in which the predator is found to be antagonisisng it has this ominous tone in which it foreshadows danger
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language 3
4 auden uses intertextuality by subvering the role of the fairy tale and making it absurd to reprent that love is the loos sof innocence.
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audens use of romantic imagery is hyperbolic 1
2 this language is hyperbolised and it is a way which he mocks the tradition oflove, providing us with overrrated cliches.
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22''as i walked out one evening''-auden uses first person narrative in which the reader does not convey emotion and is detatched from the lovers making him an outsider and an on looker. with no emotioonal contact we can see how time truly destroys.
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