Thematic Study on A.K.Ramanujan's Poetry

The second stanza reflects on the past days which were not as bad as once thought to be. I especially relate to the lines of “How I wish we

The second stanza tells about a “glorious lamp of heaven”, the sun, running a race from sunup to sundown (Herrick 385). In the third stanza it talks about when people are youthful they think they have all the time to accomplish their goals but “times still succeed the former”, which simply means time

Time, what is time, and why is it important? Well time is a concept that humans’ brains can perceive, in fact their brains basically construct the past, the present, and the future. Basically, time is a measurement system, and without it the human race wouldn’t have ever existed. Humans have a very simple understanding of time, and they still do not understand its full potential. Humans only understand the measurement of time, and the manipulation and capturing of time overwhelms them. To this day the only way humans have captured time is their memory, and even then they still get it wrong sometimes.

time,” is a statement which this book The Daughter of Time demonstrated very well. It showed how

You never paid much attention to your clock. It’s just something that was just there, like your nose or the mole on your forearm. They all say you’re wrong to ignore it, to avoid it because you can’t stop fate. No matter how much you wanted to. However, you were never one to follow the rules. Instead, you push the limits, bend it all until it breaks. But as the seconds slowly counted down, you found yourself getting more and more nervous.

In the first stanza, the writer uses many techniques to convey the feeling of loss, when he says,

Stanza 3- That morning both roads were equal- no one has walked on either path that morning. He will take the second one and save the first for another day even though he knows life will get busy and he won’t return.

This is evident as Tykwer utilises the film techniques of close up on the clock as Lola is screaming furiously, which then leads to Lola shattering the clock. Showing that she will defeat the time, eventually and will save Manni. Also in the very beginning of the movie a golden clock with a demon face is shown, foreshadowing is used to prove that something bad is going to happen to the characters during the movie, which turned out to be true. Similarly in the poem Time - an unstoppable whirlpool by the poet Nikhil Parekh conveys an identical point, using the technique metaphor, this is mentioned 'time is an incredulously gushing tornado which simply doesn't stop for you' conveying time as a tornado which cannot be slowed down or brought to a stop you simply have to "go with the flow", also through the use of visual imagery in the phrase 'Time is a tirelessly inevitable waterfall who simply does not stop for you', it is evident that the text portrays the theme of time as an unstoppable factor. It is through the visualisation of a rushing waterfall, viewers are able to understand the essence of time and the impact it can have on one's human

Time, from one person’s experience to another, from day to day, from emotion to emotion, varies more than the individuals who experience it. Yet time still can be measured. People, almost from the earth’s inception, have had a desire to regulate time. This is still seen today, with all the watches, phone clocks, wall clocks, analog clocks, digital clocks, grandfather clocks, atomic clocks, timers, and stopwatches. Unfortunately, while it is possible to measure the actual emissions from an atom’s atomic transition, it is impossible to measure time perception in different circumstances. Both the poem “Time Is”, and the statue “Father Time”, portray the integral role of time in humanity.

As well as representing material goods, the watch in the passage can also be read as a representation of time. This excerpt can also be read as a portrait of how people can be consumed and obsessed with time, with the watch representing time, and how time will run out in the end. In ‘Preamble to the Instruction on How to Wind a Watch’, the writer depicts the wearer as being obsessed with the watch, and time, and the reader is given thoughts such as having “an obligation to wind it” and an “obsession of looking into the jewellery-shop windows to check the exact time”. The idea of fear that time will run out contributes to this and intensifies the obsession. This reading can be reflected in society, as the ongoing fear of time running out can be seen in everyone.

In the novel A Visit from the Goon Squad, Jennifer Egan explores the idea that the passage of time is inevitable, and that there is no preventing it. Each character in the novel finds themselves struggling with the passage of time. Each character longs for youth and holds on to that youth through memories. For some of the characters time has broken them, but for others, it has allowed them a new outlook on life. Throughout the novel, each character ages, changes, and eventually is forced to accept the life that they have now.

I set the box back onto the desk and paced back and forth with the rhythm of the clock. I felt myself watching it, as I passed by. All I could hear was the ticking and all I could think about was the clock inside. Oh! What kind of devilish clock must have been inside? I could only imagine, its grotesque features, twisting and curling, its sharp edges, its dark aura, its stark callous face, always ticking. I couldn’t restrain myself any longer, I bound toward the box, tearing the bow and parchment away, with such furry. I flung the lid open, prepared to end this fiendish terror clock, ceasing it infernal racquet, but to my surprise, I was ridiculed by an empty box. “What is this?” I shouted with disbelief. “How is this possible?” I hurled the

Out of habit he looks at his watch – stainless-steel case, burnished aluminum band, still shiny although it no longer works. He wears it now as his only talisman. A blank face is what it shows him: zero hour. It causes a jolt of terror to run through him, this absence of official time. Nobody nowhere knows what time it is. (Atwood

shows the concept of time as anything but persistent. The painting is presented in what can be assumed to be the landscape of a dream. In the middle of the landscape is a figure that resembles a person who is sleeping, further showing that the painting’s setting is within a dream. As he falls asleep, time has, (quite literally) melted away, as shown by the clock within the paintings that have melted away. On the left hand corner, we’re shown what seems to have been another clock that has turned into a pile of ants, which shows Dalí’s definitive surrealist style. These clocks show that time isn’t of any significance. Within this land, time slips away, and life moves forward. Dalí depicts time here as limitless. While we allow ourselves to be ruled by time, he shows that once we let that guard down (as we do when we are asleep), time becomes nothing but an illusion.

However, the writer in line twelve also refers to time as a leader, which reflects a tone of acceptance toward time and his fate. This tone is different from the tone at the beginning of the poem. The speaker has changed his tone and it seems as if this tone change has occurred because the speaker is considering how he believes his short time should be spent.