WA and ER Flashcards
What is the theme of WA
The writers son growing up and distancing himself from his father
Give a quotation that shows a rythm of uncertanty in WA
“That hesitant figure, eddying away”
What does this quotation tell us?
“That hesitant figure, eddying away”
The son is confused as to who he should go to, his father or his friends
What emjambmemt dramtizes the parents pain in WA
“Like a satellite//wrenched from its orbit…”
How is the theme of separation further dramatized in WA
With the simile “like a winged seed loosened from its parent stem”
How is the simile “like a winged seed loosened from its parent stem” a bad thing and a good for the parent in WA
It is sad as the child is separating from the parent but the parent is begining to understad that moving away is a natural part of life.
How does the poem change towards the end of WA
The structure of sadness contrasts into optimism and “love”
What is the tone of ER
Sad
What is the structure of ER
There is a structure of time
We are taken into the past
What does the word “still” tell us about ER
A sense of being trapped in time
What is the first line of ER
“They are waiting for me somewhere beyond Eden Rock”
What does “They are waiting for me somewhere beyond Eden Rock” tell us
Very mysterious
Raises the questions who are “they” and where is “Eden Rock”
What does “my father, twenty-five, in the same suit” tells us ER
Gives a sense of time
Talking about the past
What does “same suit” tell us
The poets father hasn’t changed
After 25 year he still wear his same suit
What does “my mother, twenty-three” tell us
Thinking about the past
About what his parents were like
“Her hair, the colour of wheat, takes on the light”
Comapring her mother to wheat
Showing the similarities to nature
Mother was as beautiful as nature itself
What does “same suit” tell us
The poets father hasn’t changed
After 25 year he still wear his same suit
What does “my mother, twenty-three” tell us
Thinking about the past
About what his parents were like
“Her hair, the colour of wheat, takes on the light”
Comapring her mother to wheat
Showing the similarities to nature
Mother was as beautiful as nature itself
What can you say about the similarities of the two poems
WA: “It is eighteen years ago…your first game of football”
ER: “My father, twenty-five, in the same suit”
Both recalling on past events. WA father talking about child. ER child talking about father. Sharing memories.
Another similarity between the two poems
Both poems of separation. ER seems that parents have died (parents and child sperated through death). WA child distancing himself from parent.
WA: “eddying away”- child moving away from parent
ER: “they beckon to me from the other bank”- parents
