Eden Rock Flashcards
What imagery is suggested in the title?
Religious
What is the Garden of Eden a symbol of?
Paradise, perfection, innocence, surrealism
What does rock suggest?
Stability, unbreakable, danger, barrier, death
Why is the title ambiguous?
It is open to interpretation if Eden and rock compliment each other
What are the lines?
Traditional quatrains
What rhyme scheme?
Regular full and half rhyme
What does the rhyme create?
A steady and peaceful tone
What is the significance of the last line?
Breaks quatrain structure, set apart, isolated, incomplete
What does the half rhyme suggest?
Incomplete, uneven, unstable
What tense is used?
Present continuous
What number is repeated?
Three
They are waiting for me…
Somewhere beyond Eden Rock
White cloth…
Over the grass
Her hair, the colour of…
Wheat, takes on the light
The same three…
Plates
The sky whitens…
As if lit by three suns
Over the drifted…
Streams
They beckon to me…
From the other bank
Crossing is…
Not as hard as you might think
I had not thought…
That it would be like this
Significance of “three”
Holy family- Mary, Joseph, Jesus - three divine persons, one family
Unity of 3 forces in Christianity- Trinity
Family is God’s holy gift to humans
Number of gifts in nativity
Significance of “stream.”
Eden surrounded by 4 rivers
River Styx- boundary between life and death in Christianity
Journey, fluent, progression, movement but caesura after opposes it- death? Always united despite life ending? Separation
