Triple time

Question 1

What are the 2 ideas within the poem?

Answer 1

1. the present bringing no joy or pleasure, as we spend it hoping for the future
2. the future just allows us to see the chances we missed in our past, due to desiring for the future

Question 2

1 - ‘This empty street, this sky to __ scoured’

Answer 2

blandness - semantic field of abscence = mundanity of the present

Question 3

1 - ‘like a __’

Answer 3

reflection - similie = present is a reflection of the past + lacks specifics - distorted and hollow

Question 4

1 - ‘a time __ by event’

Answer 4

unreccomended - the present lacks all things one person may desire

Question 5

2 - ‘a valley __ by fat neglected chances’

Answer 5

cropped - antithesis = many oppertunities are missed

Question 6

2 - ‘forbore to __’

Answer 6

fleece - failed to take the chances in our past present

Question 7

2 - ‘__ perspectives, seasonal decrease’

Answer 7

threadbare - we blame our past selves for desiring more, instead of taking acountability