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Death of a Naturalist: Seamus Heaney (Themes (Nature (Changes from "…
Death of a Naturalist:
Seamus Heaney
Heaney's Message:
how time (growing up) affects our perception of the world around us
.
Published in
1966
Themes
Place
Based in the Irish Countryside
Nature
Changes from
"Yellow in the Sun"
(purity and happiness) to the Onomatopoeia of
"Slap and Pop"
(aggressive and a threat)
Suggest how
time
has
changed
Heaney's perception of
Nature
as a whole
Change
Childhood (admiration) to Adulthood (disgust)
Nostalgia - Looking Back
Time
The impact time has on the change of perception of nature.
Structure
Blanked verse (unrhymed) making it unpredictable
Respesent how unpredictable
Nature
can be.
Represents how unpredictable
change
can be and when it can happen in our lives.
Two Stanzas
1: Childhood
2: Adulthood
First Person
Heaney's perspection
More personal
1: Narrator slips into childhood self
"
Daddy
"
"
Mammy
"
"But best of all
"
2: Negative Imagery
"Sickened, turned, and ran"
Rule of 3
Running fear from the thing he use to see as his "
mammy
" or "
daddy
".
"Loose Necks Pulsed"
Simile
Contrasts to the reference
"In my heart"
linking to a change in perspective.
1:
"In the heart
Love for
Nature
stays within
Highlights the fact that no one can predict the future, and how much that can change.