notes on the poem Clock and Heart by Judith Wright

4. • the poem is about the
the praise of Time
&
the Trap of time
• it also gives the connection between
the Clock
&
the Human Heart

5.  the Tick Tock of the clock is the beating
music of the Heart
 the Child of Today Grows Into A
Woman / Man by no Time
Hence Time’s a Trap

6. So the Narrator kept Herself Hidden in
Poetry
 Also kept Herself Cut Off From the
Outside World
 Being as a Shade
Allowing No One to see her Face

7.  She was Satisfied with Poetry & Cocooned
Herself with that Shade
 ‘But , only for a Short while
 ,Yet’ She was Caught with the Web of
Love

8. ABC CBA (1)
GHI IHG (2 , 3)
JK LK (4) .
 Really the 4 Stanza Poem has a Curios
Scheme of “Rhyme” & has a (.) only at the
End
 & of course the Poem Advocates the Human
lovE

9.  the Poem Jumps from 1 Logical Idea to the
other
 It Advices Us to Find LOVE through
Poetry
 Since Human lOVe has a LIBERATING
POWER
 WHICH CAN ALSO DRIVE AWAY
ANY KIND OF TERROR
.