Walking Away Flashcards
Quick Revision when revising for Walking Away
1
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Themes:
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- Family Bonds
- Letting Go
- Childhood
- Parental Love
2
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Compare With:
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- Follower
- Mother, any distance
- Eden Rock
3
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Family Bonds:
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- “Since I watched you play”
- “Your first game of football”
- “It is eighteen years ago, almost to the day”
4
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Letting Go:
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- “And love is proved in the letting go”
- “Wrenched from it’s orbit, go drifting away”
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Childhood:
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- “Your first game of football”
- “You walking away, from me towards the school”
- “Since I watched you play”
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Parental Love:
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- “And love is proved in the letting go”
- Like a winged seed, loosened from it’s parent stem”
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Compare With: Follower
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- The parental figures won’t let their children go
- In Walking Away, the parent watched the child grow
- In Follower, the child watched the parent while the child was younger
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Compare With: Mother, Any Distance
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- The children have grown up and their parents are at the end, still there
9
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Compare With: Eden Rock
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- Memory Poems
- Children Always have the memories of the parents and then reality at the end of the poem
10
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Structure:
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- The first two lines of the poem are like the conclusion
- He realised that he had to let go and it is proved because the love is shown in it
11
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Form:
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- Steadiness of the father’s parental love
- The repetition of the ABACA rhythm reflects now, the memory is still affecting him
12
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Tone:
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- Sorrowful tone from the father, that had to let go of his son
