Love and Time

Question 1

Paragraph 1
(TGG + S116)

Answer 1

Love is presented as something that transcends time and the tangibility of humans.
TGG-
1) “He felt married to her”
2) “A thin red circle”
3) “Luckily the clock took this moment to tilt dangerously at the pressure of his head, whereupon he turned and caught it with trembling fingers and set it back in place”.
S116-
1) “Lov’s not times foole”
2) “to the edge of doome”
3) “let me not the marriage of true mindes”

Question 2

Paragraph 2
(TGG + TGOL)

Answer 2

In both of these texts, the author presents youthful love as something of the past - which leads to a desire to go back in time despite the impossibility of it.
TGG-
1) “‘You can’t repeat the past? Why of course you can!”
2) “I’m going to fix everything just the way it was before”
3) “we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly in the past”
TGOL-
1)”Where I used to play on the green”
2) “So I turned to the Garden of Love, that so many sweet flowers bore”.
3) “And tomb-stones where flowers should be”.

Question 3

Paragraph 3
(TGG + S116)

Answer 3

Finally, both of the authors present love as something that can guide you through time.
TGG-
1) “The green light”
2) “There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy, and the tired”.
3) “Gatsby bought that house so he could be close with Daisy”.
4) “James Gatz” -> “Jay Gatsby”
S116-
1) “On no, it is an ever fixed marke”
2) “That lookes on tempests and is never shaken”
3) “It is the star to every wandering barke”