Eden Rock - Charles Causley (1917-2003)
English Lit: AQA GCSE Poetry - Love & Relationships, topic 17.1.9
Key Quotes in Eden Rock
Here are some examples of key quotes in Eden Rock:
‘As if lit by three suns...'
- ‘The sky whitens as if lit by three suns. My mother shades her eyes and looks my way / Over the drifted stream'.
- The extraordinary light imagery in the first half of this quote contrasts with the ordinary nature of the memory.
- This quote marks the reader's realisation that the narrator's parents are on the other side of the stream from him.
'I had not thought...'
- 'I had not thought that it would be like this'.
- The final line of the poem breaks with the regularity of the structure of five stanzas, each of four lines.
- This reflects the sense of unease and lack of resolution to the poem. We realise that the narrator may be imagining joining his parents in the afterlife.
Test yourself on Eden Rock - Charles Causley (1917-2003)
Which line of the poem is this?
'I had not thought that it would be like this'