This verse form is written to state us the fact that no affair how much we think we can command the waies of life. but as clip base on ballss. we will be convinced to accept our fate. This is illustrated through an old adult female who tries to set up her life and the things around her to the manner she wanted but it all turns out that she has small control over them and largely are gone as old ages go by.
This verse form is a metrical poetry of 4 sixs. The first two sixs shows the letdown of the old adult female despite how severely she “arranges” and wants her hubby or kids to remain with her but her “love is now a spark or memory” and “no kid or adult male. and where I live is what remains when work forces and kids go” . In the 3rd six so. shows how the old adult female comforts herself that really non all is lost and “ she owns more than residue of lives that she has marked and altered. ”
That she is able to halt the cryptic force of clip and “control” the flowers from wilting “by maintaining flowers fed” and take attention of her Ag by smoothing them. In the last six. nevertheless. she eventually realizes all these do non count any longer as she ages and feels “her old ages turn less and less” . Time. which she one time feared that took off many things she cherished does non trouble oneself her as before because she knows that clip finally is traveling to take her life off excessively. It is besides clip. that made her understand the significance of what antecedently happened and she has to larn to accept. “her ain life she places in the vase” – Like the flowers she arranges. her life is arranged by clip excessively.
This verse form is written in a series of tally on lines. “Warns clip from excessively much touching her possessions/By maintaining flowers fed. by polishing/ Her mulct old silver” gives a dragging. humdrum and “controlled” feeling which likely illustrates how clip reduces the life of the old adult female and taking things off from her slowly and of course. The tally on lines besides give a really insistent consequence that clip will continually change one’s life.
Jennings uses really domestic and ordinary linguistic communication: “…cool walls of the house…flowers in a vase…fine old silver” to show to us that this is really typical of life and we may see the letdown of the old adult female excessively.
