Eden Rock

• "Eden Rock"


  Religious symbol of paradise (Garden of Eden) --> parents have died

  • Theme of death and afterlife
  • A03 ? - shows how religious Causley was
• "Her hair, the colour of wheat, takes on the light"


  Mother seems to have golden hair, creates angelic image --> thinks highly of his mum
• "sauce bottle, a screw", "slowly sets out"


  Sibilant 's' sound creates soft & gentle depiction of memory
• "The sky whitens as if lit by three suns"


  • 'three suns' - represents family (dad, mum & speaker)
  • symbolic of purity and the concept Holy Trinity
• "dress", "stress", "hat" and "light"

  • Half Rhyme - could reflect on incomplete nature and separation of relationship between parents
  • Creates immediacy to tone of the poem
• "H.P sauce bottle", "tin cups painted blue", "of Genuine Irish Tweed


  Nostalgic imagery - use of colloquialism creates nostalgia --> speaker cared and loved his parents as every detail is listed