Wherever he stands, he feels both at once. or looking forward from the present, imagining a time when the sky and the boat and the summer will have vanished. Lewis Carroll must be either looking back into the past, feeling the sunshine and the drifting boat as if he were still there. It’s because everything is in the present tense, even though it cannot all be either some of it has passed, or some of it hasn’t happened yet. But I feel the sadness in the poem, and, in this later now, I know why. I can’t read the significance of Alice reaching the final square and becoming a queen. As a child, I don’t understand exactly what it is about. “A boat beneath a sunny sky, Lingering onward dreamily In an evening of July – Children three that nestle near, Eager eye and willing ear, Pleased a simple tale to hear – Long has paled that sunny sky: Echoes fade and memories die: Autumn frosts have slain July.
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