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Time
It might not seem like it when you're sitting in class and watching the clock, but time is always moving. And even though it seems to move at a pretty slow pace sometimes, it eventually catches up with everything. In "As I Walked Out One Evening," Auden explores just how inescapable Time really is.
Even when the poem's goo-goo eyed speaker praises the power of Love, the poem's structure and form reinforces Time's dominance.
Those pesky clocks keep chiming on about the power of Time. What are they worried about? Why should they care? They're on Time's side, right? Yes and No. They care because they are in the same boat as the lovers and everything else. The tone of the clock-speaker seems desperate because eventually even the clock's voice will be silenced by the very thing clocks were created to monitor: Time.
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