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Mother, Any Walking Away

Distance

Introduction: Separation Separation


Summarize: 1. Perspective of 1. Perspective
“growing up” in son of father
both 2.Moving house 2. Looking at
entering a new younger child
journey and first day at
mother holds him school
back and support 3. Accepts the
him like an pain and let
anchor which son go
supports a flying
kite
3. Not letting go
of the child
First point: Structure and Form Structure and Form
One line longer This poem follows a
Each writer is
than the sonnet more traditional
telling about structure, consisting of
form, as the poem
growing up four quintains (five-
progresses rhyme line stanzas) with a
becomes irregular regular ABACA rhyme
scheme.
HOW: How writer having Armitage The fixed and
present growing using, “to fall or fly” controlled structure
up in this way. in the fifteenth line suggests father’s
Use Quotes and creating a break struggle to let go of
analyze single from conventions of his son by accepting
the sonnet form, the natural cycle
words in the
thereby
answer
demonstrating child
breaking away from
parents’ safety
blanket
Second point: Each The mood shifts The mood is one of
writer is telling from the comfort of sadness and
about growing up collaboration to the acceptance,
tension of capturing the
separation, ending poignant moment
on a note of of realization that
uncertainty about growing up involves
future’s potential as enduring and
to whether a child embracing
will fall or fly separation
HOW: How writer "I reach / towards a love is proved in
present growing up hatch that opens on the letting go
in this way. Use an endless sky / to This phrase signifies
Quotes and analyze fall or fly". As the the parent’s
single words in the speaker is looking acceptance of the
answer forward to an child's
"endless sky" for independence. It’s
the opportunities about stepping back
and challenges that despite the
lie ahead. The emotional
alliterative fricative difficulty,and letting
“f” sound in The child go, to make
contrasting ideas of their own choices
"fall" and "fly" are and mistakes, which
placed in proximity is crucial for their
to emphasize the growth
unknown future
and the potential
for success or
failure.
3RD POINT Mother, Any Walking Away
Distance creates creates harsher
hopeful imagery of imagery of 'a
'the endless sky' to satellite wrenched
show the potential from its orbit' to
available to the son. convey the pain of
The vivid watching your son
description of an leave you.
"endless sky" The word "orbit"
evokes a strong suggests a regular,
visual image of predictable path
vastness and that is crucial for
boundless stability. When a
potential. THESE satellite is in orbit, it
opportunities can is in a state of
either bring success balance and
or failure. security. The
imagery of being
pulled from this
orbit evokes a sense
of being thrown
into chaos and
uncertainty,
underscoring the
emotional impact of
the separation on
both the parent and
the child.
4TH POINT Growing up and the sudden and
away from mother forceful nature of
as enters adulthood separation
yet needs mother’s experienced by the
assistance and is parent. "Like a
tethered to his satellite / Wrenched
mother who from its orbit, go
provides consistent drifting away"
support. You at the
zero-end, me with The comparison of
the spool of tape, the child to a
recording / length, "satellite"
reporting metres, emphasizes their
centimetres back to previous
base".This quote attachment and the
illustrates the natural,
physical and gravitational pull of
metaphorical the parent. The
distance increasing word "wrenched"
between mother implies a forceful,
and child as they painful separation,
measure together suggesting that the
"zero-end" process of growing
represents the up and becoming
mother's constant independent is not
and unwavering smooth or easy. It
presence, serving as conveys the
the starting point or emotional turmoil
foundation for the and the sense of
child's exploration loss felt by the
and measurement parent, highlighting
of the world. The the struggle
"spool of tape" inherent in letting
symbolizes the go.
connection
between them,
stretching and
lengthening as the
child moves away
but still tethered to
the mother.
underscores the
mother's
foundational role in
the child's life and
growth.
"I space-walk "That hesitant
through the empty figure, eddying
bedrooms, climb away like a winged
the ladder to the seed loosened from
loft, to breaking its parent stem,"
point, where This quote vividly
something has to illustrates the
give;" child's tentative
child's perspective steps towards
of exploration and independence. The
reaching new "hesitant figure"
heights. The act of conveys uncertainty
"space-walking" and a lack of
suggests a sense of confidence. The
floating and comparison to a
freedom, "winged seed
emphasizing the loosened from its
child's exploration parent stem"
of uncharted emphasizes the
territory. conveys a natural, yet painful
sense of discovery process of
and adventure. The separation. The
climb "to breaking word "eddy"
point" indicates a suggests a swirling,
critical point in the uncontrolled
journey of growing movement,
up where the child indicating the
must push past unpredictability of
previous limits. the child's journey.

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