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How does the poet convey emotion in Continuum?
When first read the poem can seem to convey a rather negative emotion and is negative of the
"washed out creation" which shows how he feels that the whole world and everything in it is not
quite as good as it should be and has lost something
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Dark places normally have connotations of sadness and other negative emotions
and "creation" is normally used to describe the world in a good way, so this shows quite how negative the author must feel as something that is typically good and full of complex beauty seems to
him like a dark place that has had all happiness washed out of it
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This sense of loneliness is also created earlier as he steps "into the washed out creation"
and so implies that he was not a part of it but and does not belong in it
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This is emphasised by the
enjambment which separates the author from the door he has closed
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The author shows how he is not able to come up with ideas by
saying how "It's impossible [
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However in this sense "thoughts" does not mean all thoughts but
only the correct sort of thoughts the poet thinks he should be thinking
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This shows that he is anxious about wether the poem is good
enough
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Both the first and fourth end very bathetically as the beginning of
the stanzas are very poetic and flow but then the last lines suddenly end in a very unpoetic way
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This short phrase at the end is in contrast with the the rest of the stanza and shows how he cannot
think of anything to write that is suitably poetic
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The feeling of separation and the idea
that the whole of creation is not providing enough inspiration are shown directly by the poems content whereas the more important, in my opinion, idea of his inability to write is less clear at first
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