Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Climbing My Grandfather
- written by Andrew Waterhouse
- -Waterhouse was an
environmentalist and
lecturer
- -Only one set of poems
published about
parent/child relationships
- -Suicide in 2001, aged 42. He
suffered for a long time
with mental health
- -His grandfather was the one
who got him into
mountaineering
- 1 long stanza, 27 lines in total
- shows that his memories
aren't structured and are
constantly flowing.
Emphasizes how hard it is for
him to remember all of this
(links in to mental health)
- The following devices are used in
this poem: mountain imagery,
metaphors, extended metaphors,
oxymoron, use of memory
- These are the quotes that I will use in the exam:
- ''I decide to do it free,
without a rope or net'' and
''I change direction'' -mental
strength
- ''At his still firm
shoulder, I rest for a
while in the shade''
-love/protection
- ''gasping for breath I can
only lie...knowing the slow
pulse of his good heart''
-admiration
- Themes: mountains, Waterhouse's
childhood memories of his
grandfather and his relationship
with him