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Metaphor
the word treasure implies he/she is valuable to her.
The use of punctuation makes slow down. To emphasize the length of this hour in comparison with others.
Passer by
Time
Dropped coin
Single hour
Time:
This means the night wont ruin their single hour together
because they have met early when the sun is bright.
also the mention of them having a shining hour makes
the reader suggest this is the best moment of their lives.
"time hates love." she uses this in her last stanza to show her frustration. Time symbolizes the person throughout the poem; the beggar is love.
Beggar
Love
Now is a short sentence, this shows a short event in its
singular moment.
the affair coming to an end?
gone in a flash
Value:
Hour follows the structure of a Shakespearean sonnet: it has fourteen lines and a predictable rhyme scheme.
Hour has many references to money and riches, contrasting the concept of material wealth and possessions against love and time spent with a loved one.
The theme of value is she begins with comparing her love as a coin being dropped into a cup but in reality she means a single hour with her lover.
Love’s time’s beggar, but even a single hour,
bright as a dropped coin, makes love rich.
We find an hour together, spend it not on flowers
or wine, but the whole of the summer sky and a grass ditch.
For thousands of seconds we kiss; your hair
like treasure on the ground; the Midas light
turning your limbs to gold. Time slows, for here
we are millonaires, backhanding the night
so nothing dark will end our shining hour,
no jewel hold a candle to the cuckoo spit
hung from the blade of grass at your ear,
no chandelier or spotlight see you better lit
than here. Now. Time hates love, wants love poor,
but love spins gold, gold, gold from straw.
The opening words "Love's time's beggar" echo another poem in the
'Relationships' section of the AQA Anthology,
Shakespeare's Sonnet 116 ("Love's not Time's fool"), which also explores the relationship
between love and the passage of time
Love:
Carol Ann Duffy uses the theme love to express how
she feels towards her lover. She seems to believe that
love is more important than anything and that time
is always against her.