Eden Rock

• they are waiting for me


  Somewhere beyond eden rock
• the same..


  suit of genuine irish tweed
• my mother, 23


  in a sprigged dress
• the hair, the color of wheat,


  takes on the light
• she pours tea from a

  thermos, the milk straight from an old HP bottle
• the same three plates,

  the tin cups painted blue
• the sky whitens as if


  lit by three suns
• crossing is not as hard


  as you might think
• I had not thought


  that it would be like this
• Who published the poem

  Charles Causely
• When was the poem published

  1988
• Form


  Elegy / Ode Form The poem as a whole could be considered an elegy or an ode, as it is written largely about Charles' dead parents.
• Rhyme


  ABAB
• Structure


  regular poem, employing quatrain stanzas all the way through apart from one instance at the end. The final two stanzas are broken up into three lines and one line, respectively. Each stanza has a clear purpose in the poem's trajectory