'Death of a Naturalist'

... Mid Term Break Seamus Heaney was born in 1939 in County Derry, Northern Ireland. He grew up on a farm, one of nine children. Heaney has published several volumes of poetry including the award winning 'Death of a Naturalist.' * Firstly the title of the poem conjures up an idea or a thought of a holiday. * This poem is an incredibly tragic poem. The second line immediately sets a very somber mood, the line 'Counting bells knelling classes to a close.' These bells do not signify the ending of a class period but the ending of life. Heaney goes on in the third line of the first stanza to show the passage of time. * The Second Stanza begins with Haney seeing his father crying, a man who Heaney had always seen as being somebody very composed in the face of tragedy. But that day when he came home he saw

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