The clocks of the beginning of the poem recur at the end, “I make a trip to each clock in the apartment” and then later the speaker asks the question, “Can the clocks say?” (CP 26). In focusing upon a human construct to keep track of time, the repetition suggests the human effort to control time and therefore change. “I make a trip to each clock in the apartment / some hands point histrionically one way/ and some point others, from the ignorant faces. / Time is an Etoile; the hours diverge” “Paris, 7a.m.” captures a specific moment in time in order to seemingly stop time. In trying to examine time, Bishop tries to slow down time in order to analyze and reflect. Human endeavors naturally operate as a race against time which Bishop tries to contemplate in “Paris,
The clocks of the beginning of the poem recur at the end, “I make a trip to each clock in the apartment” and then later the speaker asks the question, “Can the clocks say?” (CP 26). In focusing upon a human construct to keep track of time, the repetition suggests the human effort to control time and therefore change. “I make a trip to each clock in the apartment / some hands point histrionically one way/ and some point others, from the ignorant faces. / Time is an Etoile; the hours diverge” “Paris, 7a.m.” captures a specific moment in time in order to seemingly stop time. In trying to examine time, Bishop tries to slow down time in order to analyze and reflect. Human endeavors naturally operate as a race against time which Bishop tries to contemplate in “Paris,