Coursework comparing 'Mid-term break' and 'Funeral blues'

... Stacey Blackbird Coursework comparing 'Mid-term break' and 'Funeral blues' 'Mid-term break was written by Seamus Heaney , a poet born in 1939 in County Derry, in Ireland. The poem is about the death of Heaney's younger brother who is unnamed. 'Funeral blues' was written by Wystan Hugh Auden, also a poet. Auden was born in 1907 in York, in England. The poem is about the death of Aden's lover and the feelings he felt when his lover died. In both poems they describe the death of a loved one. Death is treated differently by the poets, ' Mid-term break' is written in an narrative way as Heaney writes about the death of his younger brother and how he felt around family and family friends . "I sat all morning in the college sick bay Counting bells knelling classes to a close. At two o'clock our neighbours drove me home" This a quotation from 'Mid-term break', this is

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