The Author of the poem “Eden rock” Charles Causley speaks about a mother and a father who are still quite young but as one reads through the poem one can realise that the author chooses to portray this from the child’s perspective. The protagonists’ father occurs as young man and who is said to be “of genuine Irish tweed” as well, is portrayed as a unchanging and confident man who’s dog never leaves his sight “still two years old and trembling at his feet”.

his mother, who is 23 years old who sounds really nice and also sounds like a very picky and prestige women. he says “my mother, 23 in a sprigged dress drawn at her waist, ribbon in her straw hat, has spread the stiff white cloth over the grass. her hair, the colour of wheat takes on the light.”

Another way in which Thomas Hardy has presented love as a curse would be by mentioning ‘love deceives’. This quotation also makes a link to a negative type theme through the word ‘deceive’. This word explains how their relationship was full of lies and how they were untrustworthy as they may have been doing things behind each others backs.

This is a use of a metaphor because of how love cannot physically deceive but instead Thomas Hardy has compared it to their relationship in order to inform the reader of what type of relationship these two people share in the poem. The love can also be seen as curse as deceitfulness consists of lies and trickery and that can also be seen in curses.

Thomas Hardy says ‘tedious riddles of years ago’. The fact that Thomas Hardy has mentioned riddles explains how their love may have been similar as they find it hard to understand and crack each other which is also the same scenario in a riddle. Also, he mentions it as a memory as it is something that has happened in the past and can be looked back upon as a bad memory. This is a curse as it shows how the whole love was not real and could be seen as a trap for him to be hurt.