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