walking away

context?

he was rasied by his farther. the poem is about his love for him son

language

• The poem attempts to create a sense of real speech with the use of enjambment and caesura.

• The use of words such as ‘perhaps’ and ‘roughly’ gives the sense that the poet is struggling to put into words how he feels.

That hesitant figure, eddying away/Like a winged seed loosened from its parent stem’.

powerful simile that embodies the loss and naturalness using natural imagery

That hesitant figure, eddying away/Like a winged seed loosened from its parent stem’

away is repated thoughout the poem to show the process of seperation. The final line of the poem shows that the narrator has realised that the 'letting go' of his son is a part of his parental love.

leaves just turning

This is pathetic fallacy. This reflects the state of transition the father is witnessing in his son, and the changing nature of their relationship.