Eden Rock Flashcards
Summarize the meaning of the poem?
Literal meaning is a picnic with parents.
It is a very nostalgic poem but on a metaphorical level may be parents beckoning their child to the afterlife.
Summarize the structural points of the poem.
Steady rhyme scheme of half rhyme, deliberate choice due to lack of something shows the relationship is not perfect as it is divided by death and they are not united as revealed by the disjointed structure of the last four lines.
Last line is isolated as is he.
What does the title mean?
Biblical imagery shows beautiful paradise which is essentially heaven.
Clearly used to symbolize perfection of relationship.
However he idolized parents and all of the imagery creates a surreal angel visual of them.
Give the quote which has the phrase ‘wheat takes on’
“hair colour of wheat takes on the light”
What does the quote with the phrase “takes on light” show?
idea of light creates an angelic halo image.
Colour imagery of “white cloth” symbolizes goodness and purity and a very heavenly setting.
Relationship is divine.
Give the quote which has the phrase “straw”
“straw, grass, stream”
What does the quote with phrase “straw” mean?
Plethora of natural imagery.
reveals the natural imagery.
Give the quote with the phrase “i had not”
“I had not thought it would be like this”
What does the quote with the phrase “I had not “mean?
Mono-syllabic words create a child like simplicity and reflects the desire to to be with parents as a child, as his dad died when he was young.
Isolate line shows he is alone and did not marry and his parents death affected him in a way in which makes him feel lonesome and detached from the universe.
Give the quote with the phrase “sky lightens”
“Sky lightens as if lit by three suns”
What does the quote with the phrase “sky lightens” mean?
spiritual world reflects the three members of the family or the trinity which again reflects heavenly images and how the trinity together is one and if they are separated they are not a complete unit.
the three suns links to a perihelion meteorological phenomenon where the allusion of three suns appears and shows he imagines the day where he will be united with his family however is still an ambiguous line.
