What do we learn about Seamus Heaney's childhood experiences of growing up in "Mid- Term Break" and "Early Purges"?

... What do we learn about Seamus Heaney's childhood experiences of growing up in "Mid- Term Break" and "Early Purges"? After reading "Mid-Term Break" and "Early Purges", both poems written by Seamus Heaney, I found that they are both written about past experience, when Heaney was a child. "Mid-Term Break" was about the death of his younger brother, however "Early Purges" was set on a farm, and about animals being slaughtered. Although they are both set in his childhood, they are both similarly about death, that of his brother, and the farm animals. "Mid-Term Break" was the first poem I read. After reading the first stanza, the sad atmosphere created by Heaney, was instantly detected. Heaney explains how he "sat all morning in the college bay" and started, "Counting bells knelling to close." These two lines indicate that he was waiting for something, as the word "counting" is usually used to describe if

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