Comparing 'Snowdrops' and 'Mid-termbreak'

... Comparing 'Snowdrops' and 'Mid-term break' Leslie Norris' story 'Snowdrops' and Seamus Heaney's poem 'Mid-term break' are both poems and stories about people dealing with death. The writer's main ideas in both poems/stories are to focus on death, unexpected events and new experiences. There is a link between the two of them, as they are both taken from points of view of people having to deal with death or try to understand it, in different ways. The story titled 'Snowdrops' by Leslie Norris is about a teacher losing her boyfriend, who is killed in a motorcycle accident. The poem is taken from the point of view of one of the pupils in her class. The child is very young and naïve and it describes how the child is excited about going to see the snowdrops in the school garden. The brother of the child that has just died writes the poem

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