Hour

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Created on: 02-01-13 16:24

What is the Lexical field of the poem Hour?

The lexical field of Hour is wealth.

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What connotations does the final line suggest for the poem?

The final line of "spins gold, gold, gold from straw." shows the idea of the greatest treasure coming from love and of Midas.

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What is Midas?

Midas comes from Greek Mythology and the idea of everything you touch turning to gold like the fairy tale rumpelstiltskin and the skittles advert. it shows the connotations of greed and wealth.

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What is the main content of Hour?

the content is the poet describing one hour spent with a lover outdoors in the summer, and addressing the intensity of love and its relationship with time.

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What form is this poem in?

Its form is similar to a Shakespearean sonnet within it's length and rhyme schemes, but is broken into four stanzas.

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What is the structure to hour?

the final couplet links back to the personified image of time and love.

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What are the themes of Hour?

Hour has two main themes, the first is love against time and the second is ordinary is better than a fantasy.

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What other poems would be good to compare Hour too?

Hour compares nicely with Sonnet 116, To His Coy Mistress and Born Yesterday.

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Name one other technique used in Hour?

enjambment is used throughout the poem to keep it flowing and making sense at parts of the poem.

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The final line of "spins gold, gold, gold from straw." shows the idea of the greatest treasure coming from love and of Midas.

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What is Midas?

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