Death of a Naturalist Analysis
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- Death of a Naturalist
- Structure & Form
- It is written in blank verse (unrhymed iambic pentameter) throughout.
- In the first stanza, the speaker in the poem is full of enthusiasm and enjoys nature.
- In the last stanza, this changes as he becomes more aware of the dangers of the world around him.
- The poem is set out in two stanzas with a distinct volta in the second
- Middle
- For they were yellow in the sun and brownIn rain.
- Heaney uses this quote as a turning point in the poem. Called a volta. It represents the changing in the point of view of nature from an innocent child to a factual adult.
- For they were yellow in the sun and brownIn rain.
- End
- 'the angry frogs / Invaded the flax-dam'
- The arrival of the frogs is like a military invasion - they are 'angry' and invade the damn.
- 'Were gathered there for vengeance'
- Heaney implies that the grown up child feels threatened by the frogs as he sees that they are here for vengeance against him.
- 'the angry frogs / Invaded the flax-dam'
- Beginning
- 'All year the flax-dam festered' and 'green and heavy headed'
- Heaney echos the 'death' in the title with the word 'festered'. Additionally the flax is disturbingly personified with 'heavy headed'.
- Bubbles gargled delicately
- The use onomatopoeia creates images that appeal to the senses
- 'All year the flax-dam festered' and 'green and heavy headed'
- Context
- He had a rural upbringing in Ireland.
- His young brother (4) died in a car accident when he was young boy (12). It affected him badly and many of his poems are about of loss of innocence
- Seamus Heaney
- 1966
- Structure & Form
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