AS and A Level: English Literature: Poetry: Post-1770: Seamus Heaney Coursework

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Compare and contrast 'Death of a naturalist' and 'Catrin'		Read a preview →
Death of a Naturalist		Read a preview →
About the poet Seamus Heaney.		Read a preview →
Compare and contrast two of Seamus Heaney's sonnets, 'The Forge' and 'Strange Fruit'.		Read a preview →
It Matters to Me		Read a preview →
Explore how Heaney writes about childhood experiences in Death of a Naturalist and in one other poem of your choice. In your Response you should include discussion of the following:		Read a preview →
Follower is a poem about the poets love and admiration for his father. It is also about the changes that occur between father and children as children move out from their parent's shadow.		Read a preview →
Digging languageThe poem starts in the present tense. In the first line you find out that the poem is personal because of the word "my". The unusual simile "The squat pen rests, snug as a gun" is odd		Read a preview →
An Introduction to The Great Famine		Read a preview →
Most, if not all, of Heaney's poems in 'Wintering Out' describe Heaney's uncertainty towards religion and his home land, Northern Ireland - "The Tollund Man" and "Westering" best illustrate these uncertainties.		Read a preview →
In what ways do these two poets tell their stories so that readers will be shocked and moved?Which poem shocked and moved you more and why?		Read a preview →
Book Review: Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt		Read a preview →
Blackberry Picking vs. Ancient Photograph.		Read a preview →
Poetry of Violence and Injustice in Irish History		Read a preview →
Consider some of the ways in which Heaney explores the continuity between past and present in his poetry.		Read a preview →
Drawing examples from a range of poems discuss Heaney's treatment of what he has called History, Memory and Attachemetns.		Read a preview →
Analyse how Seamus Heaney uses language to convey his childhood experiences to the reader in his poems		Read a preview →
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.		Read a preview →
Compare and contrast the treatment of emigration and rural life in “The Country Boy” by John Murphy and “Philadelphia, Here I Come” by Brian Freill.		Read a preview →
The Tollund Man		Read a preview →
Mini comentaries		Read a preview →
"Wintering Out" and "Bye-Child" by Heaney.		Read a preview →
In this essay I will compare the presentation of family in diggingwith at least one other poem in identity. I have chosen to select Follower.		Read a preview →
In this essay I will compare the presentation of family in diggingwith at least one other poem in identity. I have chosen to select Follower.		Read a preview →
With close reference to at least two poems, discuss Seamus Heaney's presentation of his childhood in Ireland.		Read a preview →

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Consider Heaney's presentation of relationships in Act of Union and one other poem		Read a preview →
Describe the qualities in the young Beowulf and later in Wiglaf, that make them stand out as warrior heroes		Read a preview →
Explore how Heaney writes about suffering in 'Bye-Child' and in one other poem of your choice.		Read a preview →

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