"Wintering Out" and "Bye-Child" by Heaney.
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In "Wintering Out" Heaney goes through a number of changes, both mentally and physically. These changes can be explored through his poems. In "Bye-Child", Heaney talks about an illegitimate child. He talks about how Christianity deals with this child. Ireland, being a Christian country, frowns upon children being born before their parent's marriage. "Bye-Child" is about how a mother deals with her illegitimate child in order to stay a good Christian. - When the lamp glowed, a yolk of light in their back window, The child in the outhouse put his eye to the chink- The glowing of the lamp gives a feeling of warmth. However, the warmth is coming from inside the house and the child is in an outhouse. He looks out of a hole to see through to the house. This shows a sense of curiosity, as we feel in order to see the rest of the world. It is as though...

