Walking Away

• It is eighteen years ago..

  almost to the day
• leaves just..


  turning
• like a satelite..

  wrenched from it's orbit
• half fledged thing..


  set free into a wilderness
• like a winged seed

  loosened from its parent stem
• fire ones..

  irresolute clay
• gnaws at


  my mind still
• what god alone..


  could perfectly show
• love is proved..


  in the letting go
• Who published this poem

  Cecil Day Lewis
• When was the poem published

  1962
• Form


  autobiographical poem, first person, enjambement/caesura
• Rhyme Scheme


  ABACA
• Structure


  First 2 stanzas are memory, last 2 are about pain