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