Mid-Term break
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- Created on: 09-05-16 11:12
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- Mid-Term Break
- Meaning
- Death of Heaney's brother
- coping with grief
- Language
- Time references
- "All morning"
- "two o'clock"
- Makes pace slower - time passes slowly
- Symbolises Heaney's frustration with waiting
- Makes pace slower - time passes slowly
- at ten o'clock"
- "my father crying-"
- Unsettles him so unsettles us
- Contrast to "digging" - strong farming men
- recognises need to be strong - role reversal
- responsibility - "shake my hand" "eldest"
- confusing for Heaney - new territory
- Unsettles him so unsettles us
- Becomes bitter about loss
- Doesn't want responsibility
- "Four foot box"
- Fricative - bitter
- Repetition shows his disbelief
- ", a foot for every year"
- enhances how unfair it is
- contempt for death
- enhances how unfair it is
- Fricative - bitter
- Time references
- Structure
- start at school
- Normal setting - world continues while you grieve
- Last stanza
- Isolated - shocks
- second half emphasised because of comma
- presented as a revelation
- Short sentence = short life
- presented as a revelation
- second half emphasised because of comma
- Isolated - shocks
- Rhyming couplets
- only last two lines
- start at school
- Form
- Short stanzas to show how he doesn't know what to say
- Overcome by emotions
- Short stanzas to show how he doesn't know what to say
- Meaning
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