Death Of A Naturalist
- Created by: qwerty86
- Created on: 25-01-15 19:47
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- Death Of A Naturalist
- This poem is partly about the transition from innocence to experience
- Stanza 1
- Love of nature
- Childhood
- Innocence
- Interested in finding things out
- Enjambment
- showing childhood excitement, also fear
- Stanza 2
- Disgust
- Adulthood
- Experience
- Coming into knowledge of reality of natural world
- Onomatopoeia
- Used to create imagery of the scene
- Adds a childlike sound
- Suggest difficulty in describing events with words
- Alliteration
- Used to create sound in reader's mind
- Emphasising emotions
- Links
- Irish troubles
- Coming to realisation of problems
- Warfare as growing older
- Themes
- Love
- Nature
- Danger
- Death
- Memory
- Fascination
- Quotes
- `Bubbles gargled delicately'
- creates a calm image
- Onomatopoeia
- `Sound around the smell'
- Sibilance
- makes it sound soft and pleasant
- `coarse croaking'
- Alliteration
- the harsh `c' sound creating a violence
- adding to theunpleasant, threatening nature of the frogs to the child
- `Their loose necks pulsed like sails'
- Gives a sense of the movement of the necks ofthe frogs moving like something manmade
- Sails can be large, which also makes thismovement seem large and exaggerated
- "Mammy"
- reminder of his youth/ innocence and fascination
- childish explanation
- `Poised like mud grenades'
- Military Semantic field
- seem like the frogs may explode at any time
- Adds to the dangerous and angry image of the frogs here
- `Bubbles gargled delicately'
- Title
- Death of his love of naturalist
- Death of innocence as a child
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