Compare and Contrast the poems "Digging" and "Mid-Term Break" written by Seamus Heaney.

... Compare and Contrast the poems "Digging" and "Mid-Term Break" written by Seamus Heaney. Seamus Heaney was born on April 13, 1939. He is the eldest of nine children, to Margaret and Patrick Heaney. He lived on the family farm, Mossbawn, about 30 miles northwest of Belfast in County Derry. He attended the local school at Anahorish until 1957, and then he enrolled at Queen's College, Belfast and took a first in English there in 1961. In August of 1965 he married Marie Devlin. In 1967 he his first child, Michael, was born and a year later he second son was born, Christopher. The poem "Digging" tells of Seamus's thoughts about his future and his dream of becoming a writer instead of following the family tradition of farming. The poem starts with Seamus describing the way the a pen fits in his hand as "snug as a gun." He uses this to

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