Love and time Flashcards
P1: Gatsby is obsessed that he can repeat time and the memories of Daisy in the past he can live in and recreate - Gatsby’s idealised version that is everlasting cannot live out in reality
C5: ‘Five years next November’
C6: ‘She used to be able to understand. We’d sit for hours-’
C6: ‘Can’t repeat the past? He cried incredulously. Why of course you can’
P2: Time cannot be controlled by the rich in the novel as it is an omnipotent force and those who try to control it have destructive ends - Gatsby is closely linked to time throughout
C5: ‘The clock took this moment to tilt dangerously at the pressure of his head whereupon he turned and caught it with trembling fingers’
C5: ‘He was running down like an over-wound clock’
P3: Daisy on the other hand with her detached attitude lives in the present which Gatsby cannot fully comprehend - the same with Tom, they both follow their impulses to give themselves immediate stratification
C7: ‘I love you now isn’t that enough?’
Sonnet 116 - Love can outlast time and should not alter with its passing
‘Lov’s not Times foole’
‘That looks on tempests and is never shaken’
‘Love alters not with his breefe houres and weekes’
If love does alter then it is not true and pure
‘Love is not love which alters when it alteration findes’
Remember - Initally the speaker is determined to be remembered by her lover as she knows death is upon her
‘Remember me when I am gone away, gone far away into the silent land’
Remember - After the volta the speaker decides that it would be better for her lover to forget her as she does not want them to live in pain
‘Do not grieve for if the darkness and courruption leave a vestige of the thought I once had’
‘Better by far you should forget and smile’
The Scrutiny - The speaker in the poem wants time to go quick so he can move on and find a new love - he views time as a vessel to allow him to pursue as much desire as he can
‘A tedious twelve hours’ space’
