Eden Rock

Question 1

What are Eden Rock’s themes and comparisons

Answer 1

Poems with strong familial relationships
Nostalgia, Death, Distance, Strong Bonds

Mother any Distance
Climbing My Grandfather

Hasn’t come up yet

Question 2

‘They are waiting for me somewhere ____

Answer 2

‘They are waiting for me somewhere beyond Eden Rock’

Religious imagery, The garden of Eden from the bible

Question 3

“Cro___”

Answer 3

“Crossing”
Euphemism for death or even suicide to be reunited with his parents
Religious Imagery

Question 4

“The sky whitens as ____”

Answer 4

“The sky whitens as if lit by three suns”
Simile
Religious imagery, links to the trinity as if heaven is calling him

Question 5

What was the structure of Eden Rock

Answer 5

4 Regular quatrains with a 5th split. final stanza, the physical gap that it creates captures the distances between the poet and his parents who are on the other side

Uses half-rhyme which creates an underlying sense of discord, It should be melodic and harmonious, but the half-rhyme prevents this.