Time and the Garden (Masterplots II: Poetry, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Yvor Winters
- First Published: 1940
- Type of Work: Lyric
- Genres: Poetry, Lyric poetry
- Subjects: Maturation or coming of age, Poetry or poets, Edible plants, Time, Learning or scholarship, Fruit, Gardens or gardening, Patience, Spring
The Poem
“Time and the Garden” is a didactic lyric written in rhyming couplets of regular iambic pentameter—that is, in heroic couplets. The speaker is the poet himself, meditating on his craft.
The poem consists of three parts. In the first part (lines 1-12), the speaker considers the springtime budding in his garden and the “excitement,” the sense of anticipation, that the spectacle arouses in him. In the second part (lines 13 to 20), he realizes that to write great poems, the poet much achieve intellectual maturity and discernment; he then concludes that...
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