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Compare The Barn and An Advancement of Learning - How does Heaney present childhood fears and imagination?
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... Compare The Barn and An Advancement of Learning. How does Heaney present childhood fears and imagination? In the two Seamus Heaney poems', "The Barn," and "An Advancement of Learning," there are a number of similarities and differences between them. One key similarity is the theme of rats. In, "The Barn," the boy explores around and once he walks into a cobweb, he gets a fright and tries to get away into the sunlit yard. The boy has nightmares in the poem and the large, heavy corn sacks are described as, "great blind rats," whereas in, "An Advancement of Learning," the rats are actually real and they scuttle past in front of his eyes. They are portrayed as arrogant and disgusting. Heaney says, "The rats slobbered out of the water, smudging the silence." We begin to imagine revolting beasts all wet and disgusting scurrying about the riverbanks. What is very similar about the
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