Eden Rock

Eden Rock 

Context;

Charles Causley

born 1917-2003
His father died when  he was seven
Never married and was a primary school teaher
Looked after his mother for six years before she died in 1971
Published in 1988 at 61 years old

Imeragery
Eden rock is made up place, like garden of eden
'white' like heaven
Nature reflect the natural and beautiful relationship

Stucture

Heaven or Memory?
Stable and peacefultone with 10 syallbles reflecting his parents relationship
Written in Quatrains (4 lines a stanza)
gap of stanza represent the gap of parents
Half rhymes every other line is the instabitlity of his parents not being there
the last line is isolated like the speaker from his parents and simple and chidlike reflect his disire to be close to parents like a child

Walking Away

Walking Away

Quotes;

“A sunny day with the leaves just turning,”

“A half-fledged thing set free/Into a wilderness”

“That hesitant figure, eddying away/Like a winged seed loosened from its parent stem”

Context;

Cecil Day Lewis born 1904 died 1972.

Published in 1962 dedicated to his first son Sean

Form;

First person narrator to show personal experiance 

Structure;

Quintents, 5 line stanzas is a tightly controlled structure showing him tightly controlling his son but the use of enjabment and ceasusa is challenging this.

The first two structures the narrator talk about the memory and in the fianl two about how the memory still pains him but is an concluision that it was nessery for his son development and almost a moral.

ABACA rhyme reflects the steadiness of the father parental love like natural speech

Imagery;

“like a satellite/Wrenched from its orbit” is a smilie of danger, the enjabement wrenched the sentence apart like the satellite and the father and son. With so much nature imagery and this being a man made objects shows its not a natural break and wrenched is very negative langauge.

“the leaves just turning,” it is autumn probably september when children go back to school, autumn represents the tranisiton in their life but the leaves dying showing the loss and pain but it's natural.

“touch-lines, new-ruled” the football pitch lines have been repainted but this also shows that there are new boundries.

“Half-fledged” is when birds feather are ready to fly with independence but half means that hes not ready yet and is vunerable

“like a winged seed loosened”  man made satellite has gone to natural wings and harsh word wrenched has changed to loosened and wing seeded is meant to leave showing accpetence.

“what god alone could perfectly show” god cold only be strong enough to sacrifice his son though it's the right thing

When We Two Parted

When We Two Parted

Quotes;

“When we two parted/In silence and tears/half broken-hearted/to sever for years”
“Pale grew thy cheek and cold/Colder thy kiss”
“Long, long shall I rue thee/Too deeply to tell.”

Context;

Born in 1788 and died 1824 at the age of just 36. He was a huge celebrity for his time and went to Cambridge college were he partied and didn't turn up to lectures and was know for his affairs with high status woman. 

Published in 1816 but lied about writing it in 1808 to protects the married woman he had an affair with.

Tried to portray himself as a broken hearted gentleman and a passive victimin poems

Form;

Lyric poem 

4 lines, 8 stanzas

ABAB rhyme scheme like a sonnet

Accentual verse emphasis two stressed syllables in each line which highlight his pain, Stanzas 5 and 7 break this structure and have 3 stressed syllables to reflect the shock he felt

Sensory description pointing out the fact the relationship was based on sensory pleasure.

“of what I feel now.” fullstop shows a stop to his feelings

Ambiguitys;

“half broken-hearted” could mean only one heart broken or both only partially hurt
“thy vows are all broken” the marrige vowels were all broken long ago so could refer to vowels they made togther
“a knell to mine ear” a knell is sound of funeral bell which he says after he hears people say his name showing it kills him emotionally
“they know not I knew thee” to know someone in the old testimate is to of had sex with them this is making the realtionship seem more hounerable but its was still just an affair
“Thee” is a archaic (old-fashioned) word showing that the love is timeless but is also still used in vowels

Structure; 

The narrtor shift betweens past, present and future to juxtapose there is no change in his feelings.

“in silence and tears” being used in start and end shows hes stuck in a cycle. This is also poetic inversion which stresses the word silence not the subject grief