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This 3 page paper explicates and responds to Marcella Durand’s work “The Clocktower.” Bibliography lists 1 source.
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poem than anything else. This paper explicates and responds to the work and suggests that its main purpose is to question reality. Discussion Its very difficult to "get a handle"
on "The Clock tower" because of its odd and variable structure. However, the first line provides a clue that perhaps it is variability itself that is the subject of the
work. Durand writes: "When I saw the clocktower it was an invisible space within. / My eyes ceased to be organs of communication and instead / became organs of vision"
(Durand 83). This immediately begs the question, how can eyes be "organs of communication" rather than organs of vision? That question is not answered immediately. Instead, the poets next line
is, "when I heard bells each hour..." (Durand 83). The first lines are about sight: Durand uses the word "invisible" in the first line and then makes the extraordinary transformation
of eyes from one usage to another; the second lines are about sound (hearing). A reader would be justified in thinking that the poem has something to do with the
five human senses. The next paragraph, though, shifts away from this to a discussion of wood and concrete, structures and frames; the paragraph after that mentions color; and then, finally,
there is this: "Assisted by bells the next character enters" (Durand 83). Durand may be talking about the characters in her own works, or about those on the stage, but
somehow it seems more logical that she is referring to characters on a screen, with herself as the filmmaker. The reference to films becomes explicit when Durand describes the way
someone broke a clock face-by leaning against it (Durand). The break bugles outward: "He called the mark Kims passion. The movie star had leaned against it while filming a sex
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