Eden rock 🪨💀 Flashcards

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Fill in the gaps and give anaylsis: ‘somewhere beyond ____rock’

Hint: adverb, parents in an afterlife+ a living person cannot know the afterlife- why?

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‘somewhere beyond Eden rock’

L= somewhere- use of adverb because the speaker doesn’t know where his parents are. This is because they get are in an afterlife and a living person cannot know the afterlife.

This is also because death and the afterlife are beyond linguistic representation.

C= Biblical reference. We associate paradise with Eden and Causley has deliberately chosen a biblical reference in his choice of name for the rock because, being reunited with his parents will be like paradise.

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‘colour of wheat, _____ __ ___ _____’

Hint: L, D, angelic, lyrical language, love transcends _____, C- poem written after mum died- what does this suggest?

Hint#2: maddona-like

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‘colour of wheat, takes on the light’

L= language has become more lyrical.

  • In religious terms, it connotes a halo or a spiritual light that emanates. (Because the idea of light coming through her hair creates an angelic image’.

D= On a deeper level, it suggests the speaker sees his mother as madonna- like, a spiritually pure figure.

  • natural language is in conjunction with theme of death + afterlife- suggests that death is inevitable, because there is no way to stop the natural profession of life
  • also suggest that love transcends death

C= poem was written after mother’s death, could suggest that he still thinks and loves his mum

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Fill in the gaps and give analysis: ‘I had not______ it would be like this.’

Hint: D- death is taboo, separation of speaker from parents, tense change contrasts with last line of previous stanza- what does this suggest?

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‘I had not thought it would be like this.’

L= concludes poem with a single line stanza

L= ambiguous pronoun ‘it’ refers to passing to the afterlife

L= tense change contrasts with the last line of previous stanza. Suggest the speaker has already crossed into the afterlife.

D= On a deeper level, it suggests that death is a taboo subject.

  • the last line is separate from the rest of the poem- symbolises separation that the speaker experiences, from his parents.
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Fill in the gaps and give analysis: ‘an old . _____ bottle’

Hint: what mood + colloquial language- speaker cares for and _______ parents because it creates a sense of ________.

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‘an old H.P sauce bottle’

  • has an affectionate mood.

R= Effect of referring to brand names, it that it’s familiar to the reader.

  • use of colloquial language suggests that the speaker cares for and remembers his parents, because it creates a sense of nostalgia.
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‘____ ___ waiting for me’

Hint: L, R-engages the reader, D-plural pronoun, C- wishful thinking

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‘They are waiting for me’

L= poet begins with the plural pronoun they.

R= engages the reader because we wonder who they are and why they are waiting for him.

D= On a deeper level, beginning the poem with a plural pronoun suggests that the speaker sees them as a couple. This is wishful thinking.

C= Contextually important because this is wishful thinking on the poet. Speaker’s experience reflects how Causley’s father died young because of a survived gas attack and he was raised by his widowed mother.

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What are the themes in Eden rock?

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  • memory
  • longing
  • family
  • past
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Fill in the gaps and give analysis: ‘The sky _______ as if lit by ___ _____ ____’.

L= simile- changes tone of poem, D- change in light is a ________ for parents to see him.

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‘The sky whitens as if lit by the three suns’

L= use of simile changes the tone of the poem- because it becomes surreal with description of three suns.

D= change in light is a catalyst for his parents to see him, + the bright light represents the light from Heaven.

  • However ‘three suns’ could represent the family triangle: mother, father and speaker- it is symbolic of purity + concept of Holy trinity.
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What poems can we compare Eden rock to?

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  • before you were mine
  • follower
  • climbing my grandfather
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Fill in the gaps about the structure of Eden rock: The first _____ stanzas are written in ________, but regular structure breaks in the fourth, 7th line stanza. Why?

Hint: life to afterlife- shift in focus.

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The first three stanzas are written in quatrains, but regular structure breaks in the fourth, 7th line stanza

  • happens because shift in focus as speaker moves from to life to his parents in the afterlife.
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Fill in the gaps about the structure of Eden rock: The last ____ of the ______ stanza is emphasised because it is end-stopped. Why?

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The last line of the second stanza is emphasised because it is end-stopped

  • emphasises mother’s spiritual light and it contrasts with the stanzas that come before + after it, because it focuses on the spiritual rather than the physical.
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Fill in the gaps about the rhyme scheme of Eden rock: Eden rock has __ rhyme scheme because…

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Eden rock has no rhyme scheme because…

  • the poem has elements of uncertainty, such as the speaker not knowing where his parents area, it could reflect this.
  • Alternatively, it could also reflect the lack of restrictions of the afterlife.
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