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... THE EARLY PURGES The poem "The Early Purges" by Seamus Heaney is about animals which are put to death because they were needless in the human life. The title tells us that something was cleared out young in its life. The word purges means 'getting rid of' and early means that the animals were young. The writer tells us in the poem of how he saw the kittens drowned and how he thought it cruel, but he then grows up and tells us that it may seem cruel, but that was what life was like on the farm. He shows that he was young by starting of with "I was six when I first saw kittens drown". This would be very shocking to someone as young. In the second sentence he says "the scraggy wee shits". There is some harsh language used here and also, it shows that Dan Taggart could
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