Literature

Seamus Heaney:

Storm on the island (page 19)-

• despair/loss/grief
• threat/kill/death
• fear
• nature
• sacrifice

Death of a naturalist (page 21)-

• attitude to life
• memory of past
• nature

Digging (page 22)-

• despair/loss/grief
• attitude to life
• memory of past
• confession
• parent/child relationship
• nature

At a potato digging (page 25)-

• despair/loss/grief
• physical pain
• memory of past
• threat/kill/death
• nature
• religion

Gillian Clarke-

Catrin (page 27)-

• despair/loss/grief
• physical pain
• memory of past
• parent/child relationship
• fear
• sacrifice

A difficult birth, Easter 1998 (page 29)-

• position of women
• despair/loss/grief
• physical pain
• threat/kill/death
• fear
• nature
• religion

The field mouse (page 30)-

• despair/loss/grief
• physical pain
• attitude to life
• threat/kill/death
• fear
• nature
• religion

Cold knap lake (page 31)-

• physical pain
• jealousy/hate
• memory of past
• parent/child relationship
• threat/kill/death
• nature
• religion

Pre1914-

On my first sonne (page 46)-

• despair/loss/grief
• attitude to life
• memory of past
• parent/child relationship
• threat/kill/death
• love/romance
• fear
• religion

The Eagle (page 57)-

• jealousy/hate
• attitude to life
• parent/child relationship
• nature

The affliction of margaret (page 47)-

• despair/loss/grief
• jealousy/hate
• attitude to life
• memory of past
• parent/child relationship
• love/romance
• fear
• religion

Patrolling Barnegat (page 49)-

• despair/loss/grief
• attitude to life
• fear
• nature
• religion

The laboratory (page 52)- 

• position of women
• despair/loss/grief
• jealousy/hate
• male and female relationships
• memory of past
• confession
• threat/kill/death
• love/romance
• fear
• religion

The song of the old mother (page 46)-

• position of women
• despair/loss/grief
• jealousy/hate
• attitude to life
• memory of past
• parent/child relationship
• boredom