The Computation Time Quotes

The first line of the poem sets up a blatant contradiction: the poem's "metaphysical conceit." The conceit is that while time passes normally for everyone else, it feels really long to the speaker.

Line 5 is the point at the poem when it becomes obvious that no one could possibly live this long. Time passes faster and faster, which really means that time feels longer and longer for the speaker.

Time makes another leap, jumping from the hundreds to the thousands of years.