Deep Chronotopes Map

The deep chronotopes map for 'Home at Grasmere' is quite sparse and loose.  The dominant time-space is unequivocally that of the 'idyll' – the freedom of an open untouched and autonomous paradisal space which the poem explicitly articulates from the start: 'paradise before me'.  The wholeness of the vale as 'a Centre, come from wheresoe’er you will' a 'blended holiness of earth and sky' is registered here. At the same time, however, whilst it has a clearly identifiable chronotopic core, other chronotopes attach to this space in different directions that do not reconnect with each other to form a tight whole as we might perhaps expect. Instead, 'idyll' morphs into 'idyll-wilderness' below and 'anti-idyll' above it with other spaces figuring in minor ways ('parlour'; 'road'; 'castle').