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The Early Purges Vs Daffodils
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The Early Purges Vs Daffodils The first poem called "The Early Purges" is about the childhood of Seamus Heaney the poet. He is describing his childhood when he was six in 1945 and he wrote the poem in 1965. He was so young when he first saw kittens drown and rats trapped by Dan Tagret. He felt very sad and disgusted by the way they got rid of the animals. Growing up he took less care and attention to these horrible events as he describes the puppies as "bloody pups" and seems as though he does not care about them anymore by saying, "I just shrug". He is also talking about the people in town that consider the animals being killed as an unnatural event and call them pets while people in farm call them pests and consider them as something, which has to be "kept down". The second poem is...
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