WALKING AWAY SIMILAR POEMS FROM ANTHOLOGY PG 6

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WALKING AWAY

WALKING AWAY

SIMILAR POEMS FROM ANTHOLOGY: • (PG. 6) WHEN WE TWO PARTED - MEMORY •

SIMILAR POEMS FROM ANTHOLOGY: • (PG. 6) WHEN WE TWO PARTED - MEMORY • (PG. 16) EDEN ROCK - MEMORY • (PG. 19) BEFORE YOU WERE MINE – PARENT AND CHILD RELATIONSHIP • (PG. 18) MOTHER, ANY DISTANCE – INDEPENDENCE, PARENTAL LOVE • (PG. 23) CLIMBING MY GRANDFATHER – PARENTAL LOVE

TITLE: ABOUT GAINING INDEPENDENCE? SOMEONE’S LETTING GO? WALKING AWAY WHEN A CHILD IS GROWING

TITLE: ABOUT GAINING INDEPENDENCE? SOMEONE’S LETTING GO? WALKING AWAY WHEN A CHILD IS GROWING UP? SEPARATION?

WHAT THE POEM IS ABOUT The poem "Walking Away" by Cecil Day Lewis was

WHAT THE POEM IS ABOUT The poem "Walking Away" by Cecil Day Lewis was written for his son Sean. The author uses strong imagery and symbolism throughout the poem to relate to his son leaving home and going out on his own. Through these images and symbols the reader is able to understand the difficulty he, as a father, is having with letting go.

THEME: SEPARATION -that his son is leaving home and going into the world alone.

THEME: SEPARATION -that his son is leaving home and going into the world alone. B. IDEA: This poem opens with a father remembering back on his son's childhood. It is eighteen years ago, almost to the day – A sunny day with leaves just turning, BIG IDEA: The father begins by looking back on "a sunny day with the leaves just turning, " which makes the reader think of the changing seasons. EXPLAINED EVIDENCE: The ‘leaves just turning’ seem to reflect the change in the relationship, from easier times, to this initial ‘drifting away’. The change of seasons symbolizes the beginning of change in their lives, both living in the world without the other.

SIMILE: The touch-lines new-ruled – since I watched you play The speaker remembers a

SIMILE: The touch-lines new-ruled – since I watched you play The speaker remembers a time when the child first moved away from him during a game of football. Your first game of football, then, like a The image of a satellite's orbit, such as a satellite orbiting the Earth, helps illustrate how the father feels about the relationship with his son. Just as a satellite knows only its orbit, the father knows that his son only knows life with his father. When Lewis talks about being wrenched out of orbit, he is talking about the jolt of satellite realizing that his son is leaving home. Wrenched from its orbit, go drifting away The very last part of the first stanza talks about how something taken from its orbit will drift apart, the father is talking about his son going out on his own and the fear of his son

The second stanza opens as the father watches as his son walk away toward

The second stanza opens as the father watches as his son walk away toward school. Behind a scatter of boys. I can see the use of the word pathos allows the reader to visualize two different feelings as the father watches his son. You walking away from me towards the school With the pathos of a half-fledged thing set free The other image is that of a father watching his son takes steps toward growing up and learning the lessons only life can teach. The father calls his son "a half-fledged thing set free" which draws on the images of birds and other animals pushing offspring out into the wilderness to learn on their own. In this case the wilderness is the school that the boy is going to.

Nature: the poet uses images from nature to show that this process of movement

Nature: the poet uses images from nature to show that this process of movement and change is played out and echoed all around us. The first line of that quote symbolizes his son being on his own, having his own way of life, and signifies that the father and son no Who longer walk life in the same way. the author talks about a path which symbolizes his son's life and uses the term 'gait', or a way of With the pathos of a half-fledged thing set free walking, to describe the way his son will go about Into a wilderness, the gait of onehis life. finds no path where the path should be. When the author talks about not finding a path that should be there, he symbolizes his sons attempts to find the same path that he and his father shared for so long. It is this line that sets the son to finding his own path in life to live the way he chooses.