Tony Harrison: Under the clock

Poem Title

Original Publication

CP Page no

Under the clock

From ‘The School of Eloquence’ and Other Poems, London: Rex Collings, 1978

180

Length / Form 16 line sonnet.

Relationship to Classical Text Latin text (Tempus Fugit) and Roman numerals on a clock face are linked to reminiscence and loss.

Note Grouped under the ‘Two’ sequence of poems.