Analysis Of WH Auden's Poem: Eternal Love
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W.H. Auden's poem about the contrast between "eternal love" and the
impersonal march of time shows the irrationality of people in love, and the
blind, callous nature of time, through the use of language and imagery.
The lover's attitude is one of pleasant optimism. He is filled
with poetic though ....
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.... dark, as
the clocks' chime tells of the world that is powerless before time. To say
that " vaguely life leaks away," the author is possibly attempting to covey
that every moment lost cannot be retrieved, that every second that goes by
is a second closer to the death of the body and to the death of love. The
images of the frozen, cracked landscapes, and the crack in the teacup are
examples of lost, passed time. The verdant valleys shall always be
sheathed in snow, they cannot resist; ....
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