Explain his aim in each poem and how he achieves it?

... Explain his aim in each poem and how he achieves it? Seamus Heaney's poem 'Digging' and 'Death of a Naturalist' represents the poets past. 'Digging' covers themes of family traditions and how he feels about breaking this tradition of digging, whereas 'Death of a Naturalist' looks at his childhood past, exploring innocence and pleasure of childhood activities and comparing it to the seriousness of growing up. His aim is to explore his past, thinking about his family, environment and childhood. He achieves this through analysing events through memories, personal feelings, imagery, use of senses and many literacy devices such as onomatopoeia, alliteration and rhyme patterns. In 'Digging' Heaney is thinking about his family traditions of the past. He has broken this tradition by becoming a writer and perhaps feels a little guilty about that. 'But I've no spade to follow men like them.' While writing we hear his father's spade which

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