Eden Rock

Question 1

What imagery is suggested in the title?

Answer 1

Religious

Question 2

What is the Garden of Eden a symbol of?

Answer 2

Paradise, perfection, innocence, surrealism

Question 3

What does rock suggest?

Answer 3

Stability, unbreakable, danger, barrier, death

Question 4

Why is the title ambiguous?

Answer 4

It is open to interpretation if Eden and rock compliment each other

Question 5

What are the lines?

Answer 5

Traditional quatrains

Question 6

What rhyme scheme?

Answer 6

Regular full and half rhyme

Question 7

What does the rhyme create?

Answer 7

A steady and peaceful tone

Question 8

What is the significance of the last line?

Answer 8

Breaks quatrain structure, set apart, isolated, incomplete

Question 9

What does the half rhyme suggest?

Answer 9

Incomplete, uneven, unstable

Question 10

What tense is used?

Answer 10

Present continuous

Question 11

What number is repeated?

Answer 11

Three

Question 12

They are waiting for me…

Answer 12

Somewhere beyond Eden Rock

Question 13

White cloth…

Answer 13

Over the grass

Question 14

Her hair, the colour of…

Answer 14

Wheat, takes on the light

Question 15

The same three…

Answer 15

Plates

Question 16

The sky whitens…

Answer 16

As if lit by three suns

Question 17

Over the drifted…

Answer 17

Streams

Question 18

They beckon to me…

Answer 18

From the other bank

Question 19

Crossing is…

Answer 19

Not as hard as you might think

Question 20

I had not thought…

Answer 20

That it would be like this

Question 21

Significance of “three”

Answer 21

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

Question 22

Significance of “stream.”

Answer 22

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