Analysis Of Time Does Not Bring Relief: You All Have Lied

Time Doesn’t Heal, Your Decisions Do
Time is a precious thing that, once lost, can’t be brought back. It isn’t like any object whose value is defined, because time has no price to it; it’s cherished by the memories one created with their loved ones. Although one may not always have the best memories, since life isn’t always black and white, but can use them to grow as a person by learning from their mistakes. Memories are just like the sweet bitterness left after a heartbreak. One can either take those experiences in time and further cherish them, or can live in resentment by blaming others for what had happened. In the end, it’s up to the reader to choose the path they want to keep walking on, because time alone can’t make them feel better. Its ones decision of moving on with time and finding a new reason to live that will help them rebuild their selves. Marilyn Hacker’s villanelle “Villanelle” and Edna St. Vincent Millay’s sonnet “Time Does Not Bring Relief: You All Have Lied” demonstrate the contrast between how the path that one chooses will either bring them

This is shown through the use of language: “The old snows melt from every mountain-side, / And last year’s leaves are smoke in every lane;” (lines 5-6) and “I say, ‘There is no memory of him here!’ / And so stand stricken, so remembering him.” (lines 13-14). The verse “And last year’s leaves are smoke in every lane;” (line 6) brings a sort of sadness to the poem because it illustrates the remembrance of a distasteful past and the sorrow associated with the memory. Furthermore, the verse “I say, ‘There is no memory of him here!’” (line 13) expresses the anger hidden beneath the sorrow. These last two lines of the poem reveal that a year may not be enough to get rid of unforgettable memories since they end up fueling ones emotions such as anger and sorrow. Hence, even if the past is etched in your mind, time goes on. Time will not stop because of a broken relationship and neither should