TEMPORAL ASPECT

We can distinguish between various types of temporal aspects:

1.-Related to Children’s Time.

2.-Related to the time the author spent doing the poem.

3.-Related to the time I have spent reading and understanding the poem.

1. -Related to Children’s Time:

In this poem we can easily discover words related to “time”:

…an endless time…

…summer…

…past…

…reality…

…endlessly…

…take forever…

…the water first…

I can also include here the conception of time, mainly the conception of “past”, taking into account that everyone reading it possibly reminds a distant childhood, and get identified with the child represented in the poem.

2. - Related to the time the author spent doing the poem

I don’t actually know how much time did she spent writing the poem but taking into account that

she took 3 months to work on Disappearing Rain, and that Children's time is a shorter piece we can deduce more or less that she worked less time in Children’s Time than in other larger hypertexts.

Shorter or larger, Children’s time is a brilliant work.

3. -Related to the time I have spent reading and understanding the poem

I have read the poem a lot of times to do this paper, and it doesn’t take more than 5 or 6 minutes to read, but when we try to understand every single word the author has written, I could say that I’ve been reading it for more than 30 minutes, maybe less, to understand what she was trying to transmit as correctly as I could.

It is interesting because the kanji form of the poem made me imagine the child in all the circumstances she explained.

Academic year 2008/2009
© a.r.e.a./Dr.Vicente Forés López
© Kristel Laserna Manzanedo
krisla@alumni.uv.es
Universitat de València Press