Compare Mid-Term Break and Digging

... Ravinder k Compare Mid-Term Break and Digging Mid-Term Break is a sad poem. Mid term break is basically about a little boy, who was actually Seamus Heaney's brother, who was killed by a speeding car. Seamus Heaney describes in the poem what he did that day when his younger brother was killed. The stanza begins with the "morning" in line one, but it is two o'clock in line three, showing that hours have passed in waiting. The second stanza begins with the image of Heaney's father "crying". Heaney's father appears to be a strong man of few words, so having him crying causes an emotion in the reader. Heaney takes the reader with him as he enters the house (showing he was scared) through the porch as we meet his father, the old men gathered in the room and finally Heaney's mother coughing out "angry tearless sighs", which show that she

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