Climbing My Grandfather Flashcards
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The speaker talks of free climbing and gathering all the equipment he needs we learn it is his grandfather that he is climbing. We can assume metaphorically recount climbing up his trousers.
5-10 lines
He changes direction when he reaches the shirt, choosing to take a route up his muddy hands his arm is weathered as an old man’s would be he compared his skin too warm ice
10-17
He discovered a scar on the arm and his gentle climbing past it he rests on the shoulder and avoid looking down and proceeds to climb up the neck to his mouth
18-20
He drinks from his grandfather’s metaphorical mouth. Mouth is supposed to symbolise a stream of a river. You might see this on a mountain and crosses over the cheek to his eye and watches his pupils.
20-27
He climbed his wrinkles up to his hair and reaches the summit lying down to watch the clouds feeling the pulse of his “good “heart
How does Waterhouse use the conceit extended metaphor of caring amounting to show the speaker become acquainted?
With his grandfather and thus the complex nature of social interaction
“ without a rope or a net”
Scene of danger and peril as those speakers anxious and uncertain to get to know his grandfather, this may be due to the large generational gap, showing complexity of generations and fear overw for child anxiety provoking
When he reaches his shirt , he “ changes direction “
The enjambement mirroring the language of the syntactical change of direction show the newest multi faced nature of social interaction. Shows what we would see visibility child climbing grandfather , carrying onto the next line
“ places his feet gently eye the old stitches and move on”
The metaphor of climate has grandfather passed wounds carefully reflects the speakers empathetic nature in regard to him. It is as though the speaker is M3 through the interacting with his grandfather which demonstrates the value of healthy Familial relationship relationships. grandfathers teaching grandson how to be , act of guidance figure to look up to
“ slow pulse of his good heart”
It’s mono Slavic language of the final line mannikin the described heartbeat and the poem has a sense of finality could be sad because may have passed on , pains of emotion readers response evoke emotion ” slow pulse” normally synonym with good health speaking as Mrs. Physical signs of age for his grandfather.
“ earth stained hand”
Given the impression that the grandfather is quite involved in nature and outdoorsy and this love for nature is passed down to the speaker
The natural imagery of the poem also produces emphasis on the need for these naturally untamed pure familiar relationships. Nature is a used commonly in Waterhouse poetry 
When he reaches the summit, he” watches the clouds and birds cycle”
Using language of nature again it is significant that he sees this from the top of his grandfather‘s head as though he has a direct view into his grandfather‘s brain again reminding us that this his grandfather is by his appreciation of nature comes from the cyclical image of nature has created through “circle” representing the circle of life and nature physically shown in nature through birds and clouds, but also three relationship relationships of the speaker and their grandfather
One continuous stanza
Might reflect metaphorical mountain the speaker is climbing the stand as large like the mountain and the feeling of reaching and mirrors the feeling like the speaker experiences of summing the mountain
“ dusty and cracked;”
The semicolon visually represents the crack because of how it looks
What can climbing my grandfather compare well with?
Follower and Eden rock
How is the poem follower similar to climbing my grandfather?
They’re both childlike all paternal figures both speakers right about the itemised way in which they saw their paternal figures. Follower is his actual father and climbing. My grandfather is his grandfather when they were children. in which way they see the adult figures as role model is fine to be them and show influence they have. 
Difference in poem, follower and climbing my grandfather
Is reality follower and his poem speaking in the present tense with him as an adult and shows him and his father the tough roles and the child like he had for him has dissipated and replaced with frustration as his father is a burden to him.pesiatic view
Climbing my grandfather speak remains a child and retains the all he has and his poem is far more optimistic . Admiration

I’m climbing my grandfather and follower form similarities
Both poems like a regular rhyme scheme with follower having occasional rhyme and half arm cutlet scattered throat clinging onto past memories and climbing my grandfather having none at all shows stream of consciousness completely shows his thought and admiration not trying to make a poetic type of view
Free flowing love reduction 
Climbing my grandfather and follow a poem formdifferent
Follow-up poem is broken into five quad trains which gives an organised fuel reminding us of the speakers age despite thinking about his childhood in first person writer is an adult not a child
Climbing my grandfather‘s poem on the other hand is one continuous stand which makes the speakers age less discernible younger less clear 
Copy my grandfather follower structure similarity
Similar by the first line, both poems begin with personal pronouns which meet them sound confessional in nature can make the reader feel like they’re more intimate terms with the speaker which makes them feel more involved in the actual poem 
Follower climbing my grandfather structure different
Sexual structure followers poem has a little structure in that it returns to the present at the end of the poem after looking back at his childhood.
Climbing my grandfather remains in his childhood
The poems have very different tones or has has an optimism that is reminiscent of childhood and for grandfather and for follower has the sin of an adult 
Eden rock and climbing my grandfather comparison theme
They have a similar nature  both poems use language of nature and show it to have a supernatural quality
Retrospects both pose be retrospectively and vividly of childhood memories. They also speak very metaphorically using somatic fields of nature in their m metaphor can’t be contained into a literal meaning 
Eating rock climbing my grandfather theme difference
Metaphor, my grandfather‘s poem is far more obviously metaphorical than Eden rock which is a bit more ambiguous as to the whether it is literal or whether the speaker is speaking metaphorically about their parents
 I don’t Seshan speak with a far more utilising tone about his grandfather whereas Eden seems to speak more honesty describing his parents as they are not attributing any emotions onto them
