walking away

• "a sunny day with the leaves just turning"


  change of season reflects change in sons life
• "like a satellite wrenched from its orbit"


  semantic field of space linking to exploration, father reluctant to let son go
• "half-fledged thing set free"


  dehumanisation, not ready to let go
• "like a winged seed loosened from its parent stem"


  structually shows contrast between loosened and wrenched
• "gnaws at my mind still"
• "love is proved in the letting go"
• what is the structure?

  linear
• what is the rhyme?

  consistant alternate rhyme
• 3 key themes?

  protectiveness, loss, reflection
• effect on readers?

  readers may reflect on their own relationships
• what is the context?

  Day-lewis was bought up by his father when his mother died. this may explain the empathis he places on father and son relationships