Looking at the poems in Death of a Naturalist discuss how Heaney use’s language and poetic technique to explore the themes of childhood and loss of innocence.

... Looking at the poems in Death of a Naturalist discuss how Heaney use's language and poetic technique to explore the themes of childhood and loss of innocence. "Death of a Naturalist" Seamus Heaney's first collection of poetry was published in 1966, while he was a lecturer at Queens University. It was immediately accepted as a unique and remarkable work of literature. Seamus Heaney was just twenty-seven years old. The work is considered with the loss of childhood innocence and the moment into adulthood and all that such a journey includes. The poem gives reason to the reader why the poet has become a writer, his admiration for his ancestors and the young Seamus Haney's view of nature. Poems in "Death of a Naturalist" are all concerned with the themes of childhood and loss of innocence. Heaney writes about many aspects of his life as a child including working with his father

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