Shows that it is a traditional love poem - sonnets are
predictable could suggests love and relationships are
predictable
Money - Love
Poem has lots of images of money but also of love
and the ideas contrast - love doesn't need money
Puns - "spend it not of flowers" - don't spend their money or
time on clichés - their relationship is special
Cliches
The poem discards normal romantic images and instead
replaces them with untraditional images - i.e. "flowers" with
"grass ditch"
oxymorons
"thousands of seconds we kiss" - thousands suggest lots but
seconds is a very small amount of time - suggest that when
their together even little time is lots
Time
Time is obviously very precious to the poet as it is
referred to a lot and even in the tile - could suggest they
don't have much time together - death or forbidden love
Contrasts
rich and traditional ideas are contrasted in the poem
i.e. "flowers" and "grass ditch" and "gold" and
"straw" these emphasise these words and make
their personal experiences more precious than
traditional ones
Light
the images of light in the poem -
"candle" "shining hour" "Midas
light" give a sense of perfectness,
happiness and optimisum - these
are only when they are together
suggest they are only happy
together
Single-word sentence
in the final stanza there is a sentence with
only one word "Now." - suggests they only
need now the past and future don't matter
Fairytales - dark latent
meaning
the images of fairy tales - rumplsitlskin
and king Midas suggest there is a dark
undertone - fairy tales always have bad
parts/someone trying to stop them