In EB White's essays, “Once More to the Lake” and 'The Ring of Time,' the author demonstrates two different interpretations of time and how it is used to symbolize meaning of each piece. “Once More to the Lake” is an essay that comes primarily from White's personal experience while “The Ring of Time” primarily examines a teenage girl performing at the circus, in someone else's eyes. Both of these articles give the reader an idea of ​​how the author uses the theme of time to show different aspects of the plot. In White's essays, he uses strategies that reflect on the past and foresee the future, use other individuals as vehicles to access an alternative temporality, and demonstrate his own perceptions and visions in order to explore reality or notions of time. White uses a strategy of reflecting on the past and predicting the future to explore the notion of time to show different periods within each story and how the author sees that particular interval. In “The Ring of Time,” White writes of the narrator being at the circus and seeing “a girl of sixteen or seventeen, politely pushing her way through the spectators blocking the entrance… the richness of the scene was in its simplicity , its natural condition: of a horse, of a ring, of a girl... a ring of ambition, of happiness, of youth" (2-3). After a week or two “everything would have changed, everything would be lost: the girl would have put on makeup” (White, The Ring of Time 3) and for this reason the narrator imagines her “twenty-five years ahead, and she was now in the center of ring… wearing a conical hat and high-heeled shoes, the image of an elderly woman, holding the long reins, trapped on the treadmill of an afternoon far in the future” (White, The Ring of Time 3). T...... half of the sheet ...... in both “The Ring of Time” and “Once Again at the Lake”. These strategies include reflecting on the past and predicting the future, using other characters as vehicles, and having a personal sense of time. To summarize, both stories have similarities such as being written in the actual text, however they have many differences. Both stories may use a time theme vision technique, but they are each solitary and mismatched with each other. Furthermore, each story has a character who is not the narrator but, nevertheless, the one who is used to explore time, whether looking back to the past or looking to the future. White made both of these stories personal pieces of writing; however “Once More to the Lake” is more reflective while “The Ring of Time” is more of a public piece. All in all, each story is quite similar but also very different.