half past two

Question 1

“She, Time, Something Very Wrong”
compound words

Answer 1

childhood
“She, Time, Something Very Wrong” - childish importance to unimportant things
compound words - childish voice

Question 2

“silent noise”
“smell of old chrysanthemums, silent noise”

Answer 2

isolation
“silent noise” - oxymoronic, strange surreal world
“smell of old chrysanthemums, silent noise” - not conscious of time, another world

Question 3

“into the… into the”
enjambement
eleven tercets

Answer 3

time/reality
“into the… into the” - anaphoric repetition, time goes on forever
enjambement - mirror time passing, hanging on forever
eleven tercets - regular, constant - childhood innocence