Analysis: Sky-high

Analysis: Sky-high

Sky-high is a text in which the composer is presenting the concept of time on an intellectual and sophisticated level. The composer’s purpose throughout the text is to demonstrate how time is a medium for change and changing perspective. The composer has achieved this by using a central image, that is, the clothesline, as a constant throughout the text. The text then describes how one person’s perspective on this central image has been altered and changed as time has passed, time being the initiator of change. The composer also demonstrates how the central image of the clothesline itself has also been affected by the passing of time, “It’s an older, more age-warped washing line…now.”
In the first paragraph, the persona begins by writing, in present tense, her memories of the past. This is indicated by the lines, “It’s the washing line I remember first…” and “Other details come back…”. As the persona reminisces about the pa...