eden rock Flashcards
what quote hsows how writer sees his parents as a couple, writewrs imag9ination as his dad died early into his life
‘they are waiting for me’
what quote shows how the writer misses his father and viewed his mother as an angel and how she had a halo, like angels
her hair,…takes on the light’
what quote shows how the parents have crossed into the after life and want him to join them
‘crossing is not as hard as you may think’
what quote hsows how the speakeer will eventually join his parents
‘slowly sets out the same three plates’
what quote shows how death is an ominous thing ,a dnt here is a tense chnage which suggests the writer has died, also death is a taboo subject
‘i had not thought that it would be like this’
what is significance of the one line stanza
represents the liminal space between death andf lif e
rhme scheme
no rhyme scheme shows uncertanty of of death
contewxt
his father died wehn he was 7 because of a gas attack, his mother was a christian
