In this essay I will be comparing three Seamus Heaney poems we looked at in class these are called, “Follower”, “Mid-term Break” and, “Digging”. There are differences as well as similarities, the similarities include: they are all poems about and set in Seamus’ childhood memories
In addition, all the poems more or less use some of the same poetic devices and techniques like: onomatopoeia and some of the same characters appear in all three poems such as like: Seamus (himself obviously) and his father. The differences include the fact, “Mid-term break” which is more emotional in my personal opinion. And is about a completely different situation then, “Follower” and, “Digging”, which are set on the farm Seamus lives on and is
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“Mid-term break”, is a poem about one of Seamus Heaney’s most upsetting and disturbing memories of his childhood, going to his first ever funeral and it being his only bother who was just 4 years old you had just become what do you call them these days err…oh that’s it, an infant would not have made it any better for Seamus, plus the fact the room was full of strangers shaking his hand and telling him they were sorry about the tragedy that had fallen upon his family and whispers about him informed them he was the eldest made him very embarrassed and scared enough to hold his mothers hand,
“ I was embarrassed
By old men standing up to shake my hand
And tell me they were ‘sorry for my trouble’.
Whispers informed strangers I was the eldest,
Away at school, as my mother held my hand.”
I mean, how would you feel if you went to a funeral for the first time wouldn’t you frightened and embarrassed of the strange people coming up to you shaking you’re hand talking to you because you did not know any of them, and it was you’re only brother(s) or sister(s) or even twin(s) funeral wouldn’t you be a upset and really lonely? Because if you had nobody younger or the same age as you to talk to about what teenagers call “stuff” i.e.: the latest fashions, most popular celebrities of the time (I say this because you know kids these days, one day one band is the coolest one day and crap the next) and about you’re
In Midterm Break, Heaney reflects on the memory of his younger brother’s death, and returning home for his funeral. The poem as a whole has an overall
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A Comparison of Death of a Naturalist and Digging by Seamus Heaney The poems 'Death of a Naturalist' and 'Digging' have many similarities, and contrasts. Some of the reoccurring themes in the two poems include memories of childhood and changes in the life of the writer. There are contrasts too, in 'Death of a Naturalist'; the writer is concentrating on himself and his own experiences in life, rather than the experiences of others. In 'Digging', the opposite is true, as the writer concentrates mainly on the events in other people's lives, namely his father and grandfather.
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There are lots of things in the poems that are similar and different both of the writers are different and similar in many ways .In the poem’s “When You Are Old” By W.B Yeats, and “Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night” By Dylan Thomas.They have a bunch of similarities and differences.For example in each of the poems the theme of the poems are death and the narrator’s message in the rhyming pattern poems are both similar in the poems ,and the writing style of the poems are rhyme schemes and therefore they use different rhyme scheme in each of the poems.
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The poet writes, ?We passed the School, where Children strove At Recess-in the Ring-We passed the Fields of Gazing Grain-? These are a few similarities between the two poems.
Now, when it comes to technical similarities between the two poems (i.e. rhyme scheme and meter), there aren’t any, so instead of stating all they don’t have in common, we’ll just move straight on to the similarities in their subject matter. Of course, the most glaring similarity between the two is that they both feature a gloomy sailor
knew that if I dipped my hand the spawn would clutch it." He knew that
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Seamus Heaney (1939-2013) was an Irish poet and playwright. His poem “Punishment” was first published in 1975 in a collection of poems called “North.” Heaney wrote this poem and collection of poems after discovering several bog bodies which dated back to the 1500s. The particular women he is describing in the poem, Windeby, is thought to have died of unnatural causes. Heaney compares the circumstances to that of the IRA against the British in Ulster. Heaney talks about the injustice and brutality of the crimes committed to