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CLOCKS (First stanza (Clarke creates and maintains a playful mood of…
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First stanza
Clarke creates and maintains a playful mood of Contentment in this stanza as she depicts the love of the child to learn which reflects back to the curiosity of learning theme. This entire stanza portrays Clarke's experience in teaching a child with the assistance of mother nature.
In the first lines Clarke uses the adverb "WE" to denoted the presence of both the personas in the poem.
In the second line Clarke uses the word "FFWFF, FFWFF" to depict the presence of a toddler as this aural imagery(Onomatopoeia) shows the stumbling of the child to say a word.
Moving on Clarke depicts the passage of time and learning through nature themes as she conveys the fact that the toddler is slowly learning the ability to name the things around him
Furthermore Clarke depicts the passage of time through the symbolic use of Dandelions as clocks which enhance the theme of learning through nature.
Clarke also then conveys the theme of innocence as the toddler plays around while Clarke teaches him the time, "he blows me a field of gold " this visual imagery assists the readers in picturing the poem bring with it more interest in it
Second Stanza
"The sun goes down in the sea and the moon's translucent"- this visual imagery magnifies the change of the tone as it slowly moves to a dull one as it is initially created by the atmosphere itself, the translucent moon shows that as the passage of time the toddler has now become aware of his surrounding and no longer transparent as how he used to be, Clarke symbolically compares the child's mind the moon in this lines
The mood created is further carried on through the line "He's wary of waves and sand's \ soft treachery underfoot", here Clarke shows how the child is no more free as he used to be, he is now cautious about his surrounding and this is greatly a result of the passage of the time.
Clarke then portrays the significance of learning in the child's life as she questions him on what the sea said, the reply of the child had surprised the poet as he had connected the translucent moon to the field of gold he had played with later that day, Clarke through this line delivers the reflection of all the themes in the poem which make this line very much dramatic and this too portrays the Authors purpose.
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