Chronotopes and Topoi

The chronotopes and topoi map shows the extent to which chronotopes change across the text or connect to each other. Here again we see the centrality of 'brook-side' as a place of temptation and danger that is both 'encounter' and 'threshold'.  This is the dominant chronotopic space of the poem. We also see how central the spatio-temporal state of 'anti-idyll' is as a link place between the three main sites and the underlying psychological states they represent.