Death of a naturalist
- Created by: Millief1
- Created on: 08-05-16 11:40
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- Death of a naturalist
- Meaning
- death of Heaney's love for nature
- Language
- "warm thick slobber"
- doesn't glamourise
- Nature doesn't repulse Heaney
- "jampotfuls"
- Childish - excitement
- "hundreds of little eggs"
- Childish - excitement
- "Mrs Walls would tell us..."
- Free indirect discourse
- Recites what she says - remembers it well
- "coarse croaking"
- onomatopoeia
- Violent words/ war related
- "poised like mud grenades"
- "Invaded"
- "gathered there for vengeance"
- Shows his desperate fear - exaggeration
- "Slap and Plop"
- Plosive sounds
- multi-sensory
- Plosive sounds
- "clutch"
- Cloying sound (sticks)
- "Yellow" --> "brown"
- contrast between love and hate
- "warm thick slobber"
- Structure
- Enjambment
- "and brown/ In rain."
- Rain isolated - pathetic fallacy
- Divison
- Separate paragraphs for change in attitude
- contrast between love and hate
- Divison
- Rain isolated - pathetic fallacy
- Prosaic delivery
- Confiding in us
- Bond formed between Heaney and reader
- Confiding in us
- "and brown/ In rain."
- Random short sentences
- Shocked him and shock us
- Anti-climax
- Lots of enjambment leading to abrupt ending
- Enjambment
- Form
- Divison
- Separate paragraphs for change in attitude
- Divison
- Meaning
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