Missing Parental Support/Guidance

Question 1

Poems to Compare:

Answer 1

Follower - Seamus Heaney
Eden Rock - Charles Causley
Before You Were Mine - Carol Ann Duffy

Question 2

Relevant Context:

Answer 2

SH: Dad was a farmer; he used to help
CC: 7yrs when his father died; he joined Navy at 23 (WW2) then wrote
CAD: 1st Female Poet Laureate in Britain

Question 3

Structure/Form:

Answer 3

All have regular stanzas; ER has extra line last
All have enjambment, ER: shows calmness; F: drawn out refection; BYWM: prolonging memories
ER: volta - “three suns”, mum looks; F: role reversal - “it is my father who keeps stumbling”
BYWM + ER: present tense

Question 4

Language:

Answer 4

ER: Biblical allusions “Eden”, “three”; BYWM: pop culture allusion “Marilyn.”
All have caesura - ER: “.Leisurely” - slows down; BYWM: “before I was born.” - changing point in life - F: “.But today”
BYWM: polysyndeton “and waltz and laugh”; F: repetition of plosive sounds “bright, steel pointed sock”