Discuss how Seamus Heaney presents childhood in "Death of a naturalist" and "Mid term break".

... Discuss how Seamus Heaney presents childhood in "Death of a naturalist" and "Mid term break". The poet Seamus Heaney is describing to incidents from childhood. "Mid term break" depicts the sombre affair of a child's death. "Death of a naturalist" on the other hand tells us of a happy event. Although the two poems are written by Seamus Heaney they are not alike, death of a naturalist for example is about a boy and his interest in nature at school. Mid term break tells us about a young boy and his brother dying in his family. The narrators of both poems are young boys who are both describing an incident from the past. The narrator of death of a naturalist is describing a nature lesson at school and is linking nature to growing up e.g. describing the tadpoles turning into frogs. Mid term break is totally the opposite the narrator

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