Walking Away

Question 1

Title?

Answer 1

Repeated foundation of poem
Present participle verb
Tension conflict of not returning
Non reversible
Literal metaphor of ascent into adulthood
Slow movement, slow to adjust
Links to first steps in childhood but now first steps of adulthood

Question 2

LANGUAGE BABYYYYY

Answer 2

Then, like a satellite/ wrenched from its orbit, go drifting away
(Simile)
Like a winged seed loosened from its parent stem
(Simile)
With the pathos of a half- fledged thing set free/ into a wilderness
(Met)
The small, the scorching/ ordeals which fire ones irresolute clay
(Met)
But none that so Gnaws at my mind still
(Animalistic Verb)

Question 3

Structttt

Answer 3

End stopping
‘And love is proved in the letting go.’
‘Who finds no path where the path should be.’
Enjambment
End of stanza 1: ‘go drifting away’
Last stanza is end stopping (love prov in let go’

Question 4

Form

Answer 4

Reflect narrators thoughts 1&2 memory
Mid 2 reflect on mems and pain he feels
Final conclusion that it is an act of love letting go yet painful
Sense of real speech w interruptions and enjambment and caesura scattered- struggle to put into words how he feels
First person(al)