Eden rock and walking away are both poems that presents the separation of parent and child. the poems and the reasons for separation differ in the points of view, the perspective of the author, context and the mood of the poem.

it appears that in both Eden Rock and Walking Away the children in both of the poems have no siblings this gives them either extreme significance to their parents or have no siblings to share, good or bad, experiences with. Due to this both present a sence of reminiscense which enphisises the of the child and thye parents. in eden roch the separation of the boy/man and hes parents was enphsised by the fact that he is an only child we know that he is an only child becaude inn the poem he sais “they are waiting for me” this lets ud known that they are waiting for him and only him. it can be infered that with hes parents gone he feels alone and lost not knowing what to do with hes life. similarly in Walking Away, even though it looks at things from the perspective of the parent rather than the childs, the father is “hesitant” to “set free” hes only son. hes only child.

the contextz the poemas were written in are different as the author of the poem Eden Rock wrote hes poem was a eulegy fo r the death of one of hes parents.