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... A comparison of 'mid term break' by Shamus Hearney and 'do not go gentle into that good night' by Dylan Thomas' examining the different attitudes to death. The two poems being examined in this essay are 'mid term break' and 'do not go gentle'. Dylan Thomas was born in 1914. He had a 1st class degree in literature. Shamus Hearney was born in Ireland, 1939. He was the eldest of 9 children. He was the oxford professor of poetry. He is alive to the present day. Both of the poems relate to death although attitudes vary between the two poems. Mid term break describes the death of a younger brother affecting an older, but still relatively young child. It shows he is quite young in the ' I sat all morning in the college sick bay' This shows he is quite young as he is still in school/college. The poem ' do
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