Comment on Heaney's treatment of the theme of conflictand explore how it is used in the four collections - Explain whether his use of poetic devices varies according to his useof the theme.

... Comment on Heaney's treatment of the theme of conflict and explore how it is used in the four collections. Explain whether his use of poetic devices varies according to his use of the theme. Throughout the anthology Heaney uses a number of themes several times in each of the collections. Conflict is the theme used most frequently ranging from international conflict to interpersonal conflict. Each of the poems from the different collections shares a number of characteristics for example the use of sensory language and the signs that Heaney is growing up. "Death of a Naturalist" is the second poem of the "Death of a Naturalist" collection and is a classic example of a poem with all of the common sense. On the first line there is the mention of "flax" which is a plant that is of course a part of nature. This is the first instance that

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