Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Hour
- poem
describes an
hour spent
between the
narrator and
her lover
- poet personifies time as love's enemy but in
this perfect moment love almost manages to
stop time
- Form
- poem is addressed to her lover
- makes it seem direct and intimate
- enjambment
between 2nd&3rd,
and 3rd &4th stanza
creates pauses that
reflect stopping of
time that they're
experiencing
- sonnet
- structure
- first two lines are
personification of love & time
but also has memories of
specific afternoon
- final couplet links back to
personified images of love
and time in first stanza
- made up of one syllable words-make it forceful
and direct ending to quite a dreamy poem
- language about time
- time is portrayed as love's enemy
- imagery isn't precise-suggests the dreamy
experience of the lovers
- 'love's time beggar'
'even a single hour'
- love is dependant on time, but time doesn't need love
- love makes people beg for time
- goes to fast
- 'for thousands of seconds'
- gives sense of time slowing down
- cheating time-making it seem more by
counting in smallest division
- 'now'
- single word brings
focus onto single
moment poet is trying
to capture
- language about money&wealth
- 'bright as a dropped coin'
- simile-hour is more precious for
being unexpected
- or the hour's like a coin that's been dropped as for a beggar
- you feel rich that you have love
- 'backhanding'
- suggests bribing as well as pushing back the nigh
- 'spins gold, gold, gold from straw'
- repetition-adds emphasis to how wonderful this time is
- also adds to sense of time being slowly spun out
- creating something precious from
something ordinary makes seem like
magic
- love is the winner
- rumpelstiltskin-fairytale
- materials
- flowers
- wine
- 'summer sky and a grass ditch'
- contrast
- beauty and simple
- untraditional
- 'midas light turning your limbs to gold'
- light at sunset makes everything look golden
- might symbolise the way that loves makes
everything look different
- love isn't always what you expect
- 'no jewel hold a candle to the cuckoo spit'
- through eyes of lover everything looks precious
- 'spit'- they're so happy