Love and Relationships Poetry: Comparing Family Poems

Which two poems present powerful/strong male figures who are admired in different ways?

• Walking Away and Follower

• Follower and Climbing My Grandfather

• Climbing My Grandfather and Eden Rock

• Letters From Yorkshire and Follower

Which two poems appear to present writers dealing with lost loved ones?

• Follower and Mother Any Distance

• Eden Rock and Climbing My Grandfather

• Eden Rock and Before You Were Mine

• Before You Were Mine and Walking Away?

Which poem does not include nostalgic references to the past?

• Walking Away

• Letters From Yorkshire

• Before you Were Mine

• Eden Rock

Which two poems end with ambiguous metaphors about distance?

• Eden Rock and Letters From Yorkshire

• Walking Away and Before You Were Mine

• Mother, Any Distance and Follower

• Eden Rock and Before You Were Mine

Which two poems contain semantic fields of words associated with toil and work?

• Before You Were Mine and Mother, Any Distance

• Eden Rock and Letters From Yorkshire

• Follower and Climbing My Grandfather

• Walking Away and Climbing My Grandfather

Which two poems use enjambment to convey movement in some way?

• Climbing My Grandfather and Follower

• Climbing My Grandfather and Eden Rock

• Climbing My Grandfather and Walking Away

• Climbing My Grandfather and Letters From Yorkshire

Which two poems present a shift from admiration to feelings of regret?

• Climbing My Grandfather and Eden Rock

• Walking Away and Before You Were Mine

• Before You Were Mine and Follower

• Mother, Any Distance and Follower

Which two poems could be described as ending in a positive way, with poets resolving a problem?

• Climbing My Grandfather and Eden Rock

• Climbing My Grandfather and Follower

• Climbing My Grandfather and Walking Away

• Climbing My Grandfather and Before You Were Mine

Which two poems contain vivid memories of a distant past?

• Eden Rock and Before You Were Mine

• Climbing My Grandfather and Walking Away

• Letters From Yorkshire and Mother, Any Distance

• Letters From Yorkshire and Follower

Which two poems present speakers struggling with the idea of maturity and indepence?

• Walking Away and Climbing My Grandfather

• Follower and Walking Away

• Walking Away and Mother, Any Distance

• Mother, Any Distance and Before You Were Mine