Eden Rock

• • They are waiting for me somewhere beyond Eden Rock
• • The same three plates, the tin cups painted blue
• • The sky whitens as if lit by three suns
• • Leisurely, they beckon to me from the other bank
• • Crossing is not as hard as you might think
• • Charles Causley 1968
• Three line stanza 


  this links to the holy trinity or the stability of his family
• Alternating half rhymes 


  could reflect transition between life and death and being somewhere inbetween
• • Reflects an idyllic life rather than his actual life
• Eden is a biblical reference to the garden of Eden 



  he holds his parents and idyllic life in high regard
• Enjambment 


  adds to relaxation
• Monosyllabic final line/ mundane tone 


  Perhaps his own life failed to reflect this imagined/remembered existence
• Half rhymes 


  gentle flowing rhythm to add to the ethereal tone
• Each line has 10 syllables and most stanzas have 4 lines 



  reflects stability and security of parental relationship
• Family love/ nostalgia 


  before you were mine, letters from yorkshire or follower