Eden Rock

Question 1

Eden Rock. Title

Answer 1

It’s a made up place
Could suggest the Garden of Eden, an iydellic paradise

Question 2

Eden Rock. Stz
“They are waiting for me somewhere beyond Eden Rock”

Answer 2

Vague ideas of death
Religious imagery semantic field,
Declarative present tense

Question 3

Eden Rock. Stz
“Her hair the colour of wheat takes on the light”

Answer 3

Imagery of youth. How they are remembered
Alliteration draws attention to hair which the imagery then makes appear angelic.
He only sees one image of his parents suggesting he may not truly meet his parents but instead only see what he knew them as.

Question 4

Eden Rock. Stz
“The sky whitens as if lit by three suns”

Answer 4

Represent the holy trinity. Religious semantic field.
Simile.

Question 5

Eden Rock. Structure

Answer 5

4 regular quatrains
Regular metre
Half rhyme creates a sense of discord & disharmony showing it’s not all is peaceful as it seem.

Question 6

Eden Rock. Stz
“Crossing”
“I had not thought it would be like this”

Answer 6

Euphemism for death.
Death is not mentioned to afford the negative connotations with it.