Walking Away

Question 1

Poet

Answer 1

C. Day Lewis

Question 2

Context

Answer 2

-Cecil Day Lewis was an Irish poet who lived between 1904 and 1972. This poem was published about 1962 and is about his first son, Sean.
-He was the poet laureate for five years until his death.
-Day Lewis had himself attended boarding school and so could appreciate the anxiety and pain from both sides of the relationship: this is apparent in the descriptions of his nervous son.