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  • Created by: Cheryce
  • Created on: 13-04-13 13:07
"Love's time's beggar"
Love is dependent on time, but time doesn't need love.
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"For Thousands of seconds".
-Makes time slow down or makes it seem longer by counting it in the smallest division
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"the Midas light turning your limbs to gold"
the sunset makes everything seem golden or that love makes everything look different
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"Now."
Brings the focus to the one specific moment the poet is trying to capture
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"backhanding the night"
- Suggests pushing back the night so that it doesn't come and stop the lovers being together. Could also suggest bribing the night to stay away.
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"spins gold, gold, gold from straw"
This is what Rumplstiltskin does in the fairytale- 3 is the magic number, 3 nights, 3 rooms full of straw.- Repition emphasises how wonderful time is or the sense that time is being spun out and can never be reclaimed
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"Time hates love"
There is never enough time for love
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"Even a single hour".
even an hour together is great or that love is worth more with time
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"we are millionaires"
time or love makes people rich.
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Card 2

Front

-Makes time slow down or makes it seem longer by counting it in the smallest division

Back

"For Thousands of seconds".

Card 3

Front

the sunset makes everything seem golden or that love makes everything look different

Back

Preview of the back of card 3

Card 4

Front

Brings the focus to the one specific moment the poet is trying to capture

Back

Preview of the back of card 4

Card 5

Front

- Suggests pushing back the night so that it doesn't come and stop the lovers being together. Could also suggest bribing the night to stay away.

Back

Preview of the back of card 5
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