Eden Rock

• Who wrote Eden rock?

  Charles Causley
• "Crossing is not as hard as you think"
• "ribbon in her straw hat"
• "Somewhere beyond Eden Rock"
• "still two years old and trembling at his feet"
• "As if lit by three suns"
• Detached narration:

  • "they are waiting"
  • "they beckon"
  • "they call"


  Detached tone represents the distance the speaker feels from his parents and his past: he can hear them calling him, but he can't reach them.

  Causley combines a personal memory with a narration to show the frustration that the speaker feels.
• Structure: 


  enjambment

  final line is isolated from the rest of the poem