Task One: How does the speaker describe his father? Underline five quotations and justify them.

  • “I was a nuisance, tripping, falling, Yapping always.”
  • “I had not thought that it would be like this.”
  • “It is my father who keeps stumbling behind me.”
  • “My father spins a stone along the water.”
  • “They are waiting for me somewhere beyond Eden Rock.”

Task Two: Skipped.

Task Three: Re-read stanza four – how does this relate to the title? How does the speaker use figurative language to help show his feelings towards his father?