Time and Music (Masterplots II: Poetry, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Janet Lewis
- First Published: 1929
- Type of Work: Lyric
- Genres: Poetry, Lyric poetry
- Subjects: Music or musicians, Beauty, Flight, Birds, Life and death, Time, Boats or boating, Motion
The Poem
In the first of three four-line stanzas, the speaker of “Time and Music” establishes that Time, which medieval scholastic philosophers defined as the measure of motion, both permits music to exist and creates the silence into which it disappears: Thus, although time enables music to exist, every piece of music must come to an end and be overtaken by silence. In an article on Janet Lewis’s poetry published in Southern Review (1987), Helen Trimpi offers an extended paraphrase of “Time and Music.” In the poem, time is said to give being to music,...
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