Walking Away Context and Structure

1. 1The poem was written by [blank_start]Cecil[blank_end] [blank_start]Day[blank_end]-[blank_start]Lewis[blank_end].
   Cecil Day Lewis was born in [blank_start]1904[blank_end] and died in [blank_start]1972[blank_end].
   He was born in [blank_start]Ireland[blank_end], but moved to [blank_start]England[blank_end] when he was very young.
   He also wrote [blank_start]mystery[blank_end] [blank_start]stories[blank_end] under the pseudonym of [blank_start]Nicholas[blank_end] [blank_start]Blake[blank_end]
   [blank_start]Four[blank_end] stanzas of [blank_start]five[blank_end] lines
   [blank_start]ABACA[blank_end] rhyme scheme
   Written in [blank_start]1956[blank_end] for his eldest son [blank_start]Sean[blank_end], on his first day of [blank_start]school[blank_end].
   Rhythm is similar to Heaney's '[blank_start]Follower[blank_end]'
   About his [blank_start]eldest[blank_end] son from his first marriage, [blank_start]Sean[blank_end].
   Sean was born in [blank_start]1931[blank_end]
   This poem was written in [blank_start]1956[blank_end].
   [blank_start]Subtitled[blank_end] 'for Sean' so he wanted Sean to know, and also maybe other parents going through similar times, maybe to reassure them it is natural and happens to everyone.
   About Sean as a [blank_start]seven[blank_end] year old starting as a [blank_start]boarder[blank_end] at [blank_start]Allhallows[blank_end] School in Somerset.
   Cecil Day Lewis had been to [blank_start]boarding[blank_end] school himself and therefore new all about the enforced separation of a parent and child, but this time views it from his perspective as the parent.
   The way it 'Gnaws at my mind still' suggests he is worried if sending Sean to boarding school was the right thing to do.
   Tension between what the [blank_start]brain[blank_end] thinks is right and what the [blank_start]heart[blank_end] believes.

   1. ACecil
   2. BDay
   3. CLewis
   4. D1904
   5. E1972
   6. FIreland
   7. GEngland
   8. Hmystery
   9. Istories
   10. JNicholas
   11. KBlake
   12. LFour
   13. Mfive
   14. NABACA
   15. O1956
   16. PSean
   17. Qschool
   18. RFollower
   19. Seldest
   20. TSean
   21. U1931
   22. V1956
   23. WSubtitled
   24. Xseven
   25. Yboarder
   26. ZAllhallows
   27. AAboarding
   28. ABbrain
   29. ACheart

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GCSE English Quiz on Walking Away Context and Structure, created by Verity Cartwright on 08/06/2016.

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