Climbing my grandfather

By andrew waterhouse 

Waterhouse uses extended metaphors when he compares grandfather to mountain "climbing my grandfather"

imposing a figure in memory 

Compares grandfathers skin to 'ice'but this is 'warm ice' a puzzling contradiction also known as a paradox suggests its imposible to put words into the exact feelings that memory gives 

Not divided into stanzas with no obvious rhyme scheme as poem presented as one continuos piece may link to ideas of imposing a mountain waiting to be climbed Tone is also gentle throughout 

often in poem to make transitions from one stage to the next of a continual journey "i change.....direction"

A narrative verse 

present tense and first person throughout "i decieded to do it free,"

however the speaker is refering to past but finding it hard to remeber a  figure from long ago 

"glassy ridge"

metaphor when the comparison is between a scar and the grandfather this links to natural features 

which consequently puts focus on the man and shows how the speaker is enjoying remebering him