Set 3

Question 1

Eden rock poet

Answer 1

Charles Causely

Question 2

Eden rock context

Answer 2

Modern by Cornish primary school teacher
Never married
Devoted life to sick mother
Eden rock = fictional = garden of Eden = paradise

Question 3

Eden rock emotional journey

Answer 3

‘Crossing’

Question 4

Eden rock volta

Answer 4

‘Looks my way’

Question 5

Eden rock suns

Answer 5

‘Three suns’

Question 6

Eden rock expectations

Answer 6

‘I had not thought it would be like this’

Question 7

Eden rock waiting

Answer 7

‘They are waiting’

Question 8

Walking away poet

Answer 8

Cecil day-Lewis

Question 9

Walking away context

Answer 9

Written a year before his son from 2nd marriage was born
Written about his first son walking into boarding school towards his friends

Question 10

Walking away seed

Answer 10

“Like a winged seed loosened from its parents stem”

Question 11

Walking away gnaws

Answer 11

“Gnaws at my mind still”

Question 12

Walking away clay

Answer 12

“Fire one’s inresolute clay”

Question 13

Walking away god

Answer 13

“God alone could perfectly show”

Question 14

Letters from Yorkshire poet

Answer 14

Maura Dooley

Question 15

Letters from Yorkshire context

Answer 15

Irish background but from England (writes about the tensions and contradictions of this)
Contrasts partner gardening to her life working in London

Question 16

Letters from Yorkshire indoors

Answer 16

“Come indoors to write to me”

Question 17

Letters from Yorkshire pouring

Answer 17

“Pouring air and light”

Question 18

Letters from Yorkshire path

Answer 18

“Clearing a path through the snow”

Question 19

letters from Yorkshire messages

Answer 19

“Souls tap out messages

Question 20

Letters from Yorkshire news

Answer 20

“Same news in different houses”