Wednesday, 10th February 2021.

Homework Poetry:
Eden Rock:
 In this poem the narrator is imagining his parents in a beautiful
idyllic peaceful scene and the writer is on the opposite side of the
stream.
 His parents keep telling him to cross the river.
 Analysis: This poem might be a childhood memory that the writer
had of a day out for a picnic with his parents.
 Analysis 2: His parents telling him to join them in the afterlife in
heaven.
 The writer’s parents were both dead by the time he wrote this.
 The writer has a secure and loving relationship with his parents.
 This poem is about a parent-child relationship.

PETER:
In ‘When we two parted’ Lord Byron highlights the theme of unrequited
love; it talks about a secret affair and about his frustrations at her
unfaithfulness to him. For instance, the phrase “half broken hearted”
highlights his struggle to move on from the memories of Lady Frances.
The writer also uses a cyclical structure by using the phrase “with
silence and tears” , to symbolise that before and after he met her he
was feeling unhappy and miserable, this is because before he met her,
Lord Byron felt empty and lonely ,but after meeting her he was broken
and in “tears”. The noun ‘silence’ creates greater emphasis of the fact
that he had to suffer in silence and all alone, making the reader feel
sorry for him. Some readers might also feel satisfied of the fact that
he’s suffering as he was committing an affair with a married woman.