Eden Rock by Charles Causley: what it is about, its context, and how Causley uses language, form and structure.
Key quotations and how to analyse them, and the poems in the cluster it compares well with, with similarities and differences.
How to use the lesson's key quotations in an essay, with a short worked paragraph.
Key quotations: 'They are waiting for me somewhere beyond Eden Rock', 'My father, twenty-five, in the same suit', 'My mother, twenty-three, in a sprigged dress', 'The sky whitens as if lit by three suns', 'They beckon to me from the other bank', 'Crossing is not as hard as you might think', 'I had not thought that it would be like this'.
Form: quatrains with half-rhyme, and the single isolated last line.
Context: Causley's parents and his father's early death, and Eden as paradise and the afterlife.
Comparisons with Before You Were Mine, Walking Away and Follower.
