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loves times beggar, but even a single hour,/
bright as a dropped coin, makes love rich."

- time is personified
- love is beggar
- time is dropping a single hour into loves hands as a gift.

- love is homeless.
- hour is a timed process.
- dropped coin" makes it sound like a transaction as if it were illegal.
- find" suggests difficultly of getting together.
- spending time not money, metaphorically.
- ditch" not romantic, hidden, imagery of a trench - dangerous.

we find an hour together, spend it not on flowers/
or wine, but the whole of the summer sky and a grass ditch."

- romantic imagery of "wine", "summer" and "flowers".
- sibilance of "summer sky" , "Grass ditch"
- softness of the grass.

for thousands of seconds we kiss; your hair/
like treasure on the ground;"

-sibilance
- treasure" gives the person value

; the Midas light/ turning your limbs to gold."

time slows, for here we are millionaires, backhanding the night"

- punctuation physically slows the reader down.
- millionare of seconds.
-bribing the darkness to delay its coming - backhanding - bribing.

- thousands of seconds sounds large but is less
- midas was cursed as he turned everything to gold.
- cannot have physical contact
- richess at an expence.
- backhand suggest bribery
- they dont see each other during the night?
- having an affair?

"so nothing dark will end our shinning hour,"

- nothing dark" the night will not disturb them.
- shinning hour" highlight of her life.

- yet dark implies something threatening.

- obsessiveness of the moment, blocking out the reality.
- delusional.

" no jewel hold a candle to the cuckoo spit/
hung from the blade of grass at your ear,/
no chandelier or spotlight see you better lit"

- no jewel will compare to the drop of jew.
- cuckoo clock refers to time.
- light - candle, spotlight, chandelier.

candle - natural
spotlight - artidfitial
natural will win

- no jewel" absence of poverty - no jewelry
- absence of chandelier
- absence of attention - in a ditch

poverty? of time?

- cuckoo - suggestion of madness dilutional of there relationship.

"than here. Now. Time hates love, wants love poor"

- Now." shows swiftness of time, gone in a flash.

- personification of time that time is hateful, given verbs
- time is loves enemy.
- "hates love" contrasting words toghester suggesting a love hate relationship.
- "poor" poverty of time not money. time is trying to steal from love.

"but love spins gold, gold ,gold from straw."

- repetition of gold - love will never give up, unstoppable

- refering to rumpelstiltskin - gold into straw.

- loseing wealth to gain another wealth - love is the wealth.
- iambic pentameter in the second relates to the iambic pentameter in rumpelstiltskin.

	Created by twobs about 10 years ago

GCSE english Note on Untitled, created by twobs on 25/03/2014.

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