Triple Time

Question 1

Triple time title

Answer 1

indicates the three parts of time - quickened tempo of title reflects the passing of time being quick

Question 2

This empty street, this sky to blandness scoured

Answer 2

semantic field of bleakness associated with present - isolating and mundane

Question 3

this air, is a little indistinct with autumn

Answer 3

seasonal imagery - lack of life and links to prev ideas of present being isolating

Question 4

A time traditionally soured
A time unrecommended by event

Answer 4

anaphora emph the inevitability of the present becoming as mundane and monotonous as the past + lost opportunties - transitional

Question 5

But equally make up something else

Answer 5

soft volta - iintroduces idea of diff times flowing on from one another and co-existence with a happier time

Question 6

This is the furthest future my childhood saw / between long houses, under travelling skies

Answer 6

superlative emph the hopeful view on adulthood childhood holds - thrilling and exciting enterprise

description of env jxtp with first stanza’s uneventfulness

Question 7

between long houses, under travelling skies/ heard in contending bells

Answer 7

half rhyme may reflect hidden sense of regret for speaker - present is already not matching up with past idealisations - false perceptions unravelling (deceived)

noise = assertive = certainty of future and flow

OR future as being alluring/exciting

Question 8

an air lambient with adult enterprise

Answer 8

hopeful view on the future - allures the speaker + light imagery

OR

the power of time to change perceptions on the future to become idealised

Question 9

what is the tone in the third stanza and why?

Answer 9

pessimisstic and critical tone - when he looks back on the present he can only see the lost opporunities and mistaken perceptions he had

Question 10

why does the third stanza use so much enjambment

Answer 10

the rapid passing of and inertia of time the speaker has no control over - unable to grasp and misses opportunities + reveals disappointing reality

Question 11

a valley cropped by fat neglected chances

Answer 11

jxtp between natural image of abundance presents the lost opportunities through ignorance

Question 12

we blame out last/ threadbare perspectives, seasonal decrease.

Answer 12

enj emph the continued ignorance of society - deceived - blames lost opportunities on external factors rather than themselves

enables cycle of ignorance and passivety to continue - idle- own inertia

reference to seasonal imagery = progression of time + ignorance will repeat

Question 13

that we insensately forbore to fleece

Answer 13

critiques foolish deception of society to take resp for their lack of action over missed opportunities