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In many of Slessors poems, there is an unambiguous
expression of a desire to escape the influence of Time, to
exist in a paradise outside the normal processes of ageing
and decay Julian Croft (Out of Time, Five Bells, Sleep)
There is an increasing emphasis on the exploration of
Time and its major symbol, the sea T.L Sturm (Out of
Time, Five Bells, Five Visions, Beach Burial)
Even Cook, heroic and a scientific wizard to his men, is
subservient to Time Clive Hamer (Five Visions)
Ideas and Themes (they overlap)
Time (Out of Time, Five Bells, Five Visions, Elegy)
Time is incessant (never ending)
Cyclic structure of Out of Time and Five
Bells
Time is powerful
Simile in like a hundred yachts in Out of
Time
Personification in He keeps appointments
with a million years. Shows our existence is
insignificant. - Out of Time
Paradoxically, Time is powerless against itself
and succumbs to its own force his fate
pursues him Out of Time
Wave imagery is representative of Time. Our
hopelessness is shown by the waves:
The tide goes over, the waves ride over you
- Five Bells
The persona is taken by the suck of the sea
Out of Time
One wave shook their keel - Five Visions.
Shows that water can affect mortality.
Time brings about change (Elegy)
Gardens have changed In the autumn I
came where spring had used me better
Five Visions
Vision of Life
Life is transient in relation to the inexorable passage
of Time
Memories are able to withstand the permutation of
Time but are temporary to the unrelenting nature of
Time
How the poem portrays the Vision of Life
Quick Plot Summary
Sleep
Vision of Life
How the poem portrays the Vision of Life
Quick Plot Summary
Supporting Techniques/Quotes
Sensuality
Vision of Life
Critique
In many of Slessors poems, there is an
unambiguous expression of a desire to
escape the influence of Time, to exist in a
paradise outside the normal processes of
ageing and decay Julian Croft
Man desperately attempts to defy time
leaning against his golden undertow
(undertow representative of Time)
Memories are used in the sweet meniscus
lensed in a bubbles ghostly camera to
emphasise mans defiance of Time to transcend
it
Attempts are futile as persona is inevitably
taken by the suck of the sea