'Mother, Any Distance' and 'Walking Away'
- Created by: Morgan.K
- Created on: 23-04-18 20:04
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- Parent/Child Relationship in 'Walking Away' and 'Mother, Any Distance'
- Similarities
- Use of natural imagery
- To show how groing up and idependance is something that is natural and somethig everyone must go through.
- Bird imagery is used to show how just like birds migrating and comig home, they will also come home and not leave their relationships with their parets behind.
- Used to show the grace of growing up and how it ca be a happy time, instead of a sad oe.
- Both poets feel growing pains
- In 'Walking Away' the father is worried about his son and feels like his son is being taken from him so suddenly.
- 'like a satellite wreched from its orbit'
- The poet in 'Mother Any Distance' feel ervous ad very cautious about growing up and gaining independance from his mother.
- 'I space-walked'
- In 'Walking Away' the father is worried about his son and feels like his son is being taken from him so suddenly.
- The difference in narrators sows that the same unconfortable feeling is felt by both sides of the parent/child relationship
- They both have a strong relationship with their parents
- Use of natural imagery
- Differences
- 'Mother, Any Distance'
- Told in the perspective of the son growing up and leaving his mother
- Present tense is used
- 'Walking Away'
- Told in the perspective of the father
- Past tense is used to show how the day still affects him greatly.
- 'Mother, Any Distance'
- Similarities
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