Continuum by Allen Curnow

In the Literature lesson we started to analyse poetry. We devided ourselves in groups and each group had to analyse one poem of the book "Songs of ourselves". The poem we had to analyse was "Continuum" by Allen Curnow. In the following video I will show different images that portray literaly and symbolically the poem:


We found the poem memorable for two reasons, the first one is because of the punctuation or organisation the poem is written. Additionally, the author expresses his feeling of lack of inspiration by the use of diction and imagery and also by the fact that the poem is an extended metaphor.