Poet
Seamus Heaney
Themes
Childhood, memories,, death, loss, relations, tragedy
Poetic techniques
Personal pronoun “
onomatopoeia
imagery
Metaphor
Simile
Personal pronoun “I”- Quote
“I sat all morning in the college sick bay”
Onomatopoeia- Quote
“The baby cooed and laughed”
Imagery- Quote
“The corpse, stanched and bandaged”
“Paler now”
Wearing a poppy bruise on his left temple”
“He lay in the four foot box as in his cot”
Simile- Quote
“He lay in the four foot box as in his cot”
Metaphor- Quote
A four foot box, a foot for every year