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Eden Rock -
Charles Causley
- "Eden Rock"
(Biblical reference)
- Reference to the Garden of Eden
- Suggests this place with his parents is
perfect and peaceful
- Suggests this place with his parents is
perfect and peaceful
- Reference to the Garden of Eden
- "My father,
twenty-five...My mother,
twenty-three"
- Introductions to the two parents mirror each
other, emphasising their closeness
- Introductions to the two parents mirror each
other, emphasising their closeness
- "white"
- Pure, peaceful colour
- Pure, peaceful colour
- "takes on the light"
(angelic image)
- The light in his mother's hair gives
an angelic image
- The light in his mother's hair gives
an angelic image
- "slowly"
- The action of his mother and
father are tranquil and peaceful
- The action of his mother and
father are tranquil and peaceful
- "Leisurely, They"
(enjambment)
- Creates a pause which imitates the
leisurely way the narrator's parents
beckon to him
- Creates a pause which imitates the
leisurely way the narrator's parents
beckon to him
- "is not as hard as you might think"
- The narrator's parents comfort and
encourage him
- The narrator's parents comfort and
encourage him
- "I had not thought that it would be like this"
(monosyllabic language)
- Creates a tone of child-like simplicity
- Ambiguous as we don't know what
'it' actually is.
- He may be referring to his preparing to die,
or the afterlife
- He may be referring to his preparing to die,
or the afterlife
- Creates a tone of child-like simplicity
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