Explore the ways that youth is lost in 'Death of a Naturalist', 'ColdKnapLake ', 'On My First Sonne' and 'The Song of the Old Mother' through the poets' portrayal of children.

... ESSAY NUMBER 4: Explore the ways that youth is lost in 'Death of a Naturalist', 'Cold Knap Lake', 'On My First Sonne' and 'The Song of the Old Mother' through the poets' portrayal of children. Write about: * How children are portrayed * The feelings the poets convey about youth * The methods the poets use to suggest the loss of youth * Your own response to the poem In 'Death of a Naturalist', 'Cold Knap Lake', 'On My First Sonne' and 'The Song of the Old Mother', each poet writes about a loss of youth, or a sense of youth no longer being present. The writer of each poem writes about childhood and children are portrayed. In 'Death of a Naturalist', Seamus Heaney writes about how he began puberty, and entered adolescence. This change triggered a loss of childhood, and his poem is an insight into this. In 'Cold Knap Lake', Gillian Clarke writes

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