"Time" by Robert W. Vissage

Have you ever pondered about what an important role time plays in our lives? Have you ever thought about how you would go about describing time to someone who had not ever even heard of the concept of time? These two questions have been thought about by poets and often become the subject of their poems. The poem 'Time' by Robert W. Vissage and the poem also entitled 'Time' by an anonymous author do a good job of describing the abstract concept of time, however in very different ways.
The different literary devices used in these two poems greatly helps their description of the abstract…