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The second poem I will look at is “Mid-term break”, the most emotional of the two poems. The simple and straight forward title caught my attention suggesting to me that this poem is going to be about a positive experience, a break from work, a time to relax.
The poem is about one of Heaney's most traumatizing experience and memory of his childhood, going to his first ever funeral and it being the one of his only brother, who was just four years old when he died. The beginning line shows a low tone that is full of surprises that is not positive at all. This was a sad affair for both him and his family who were peasants. The father was immune to death but this one he could not find a way to go round of it. The mother as well felt as if …show more content…
Throughout the poem, Seamus uses many poetic techniques, such as colloquial, metaphors, similes, repetition, alliteration but also emotional language. As an example, you can see in the first stanza of the poem where he use alliteration, “I sat all morning in the collage sickbay, Counting bells knelling classes to a close” , here Heaney used alliteration in this stanza to accentuate the 'C' sound in the following words: collage, classes and close, by doing so Heaney repeats the 'C' sound and therefore creates rhythm in the …show more content…
The stanzas or verses only have three lines so they are easy on the eye to read, so you it draws your attention and gives importance to the shorter last
The second poem I will look at is “Mid-term break”, the most emotional of the two poems. The simple and straight forward title caught my attention suggesting to me that this poem is going to be about a positive experience, a break from work, a time to relax.
The poem is about one of Heaney's most traumatizing experience and memory of his childhood, going to his first ever funeral and it being the one of his only brother, who was just four years old when he died. The beginning line shows a low tone that is full of surprises that is not positive at all. This was a sad affair for both him and his family who were peasants. The father was immune to death but this one he could not find a way to go round of it. The mother as well felt as if …show more content…
Throughout the poem, Seamus uses many poetic techniques, such as colloquial, metaphors, similes, repetition, alliteration but also emotional language. As an example, you can see in the first stanza of the poem where he use alliteration, “I sat all morning in the collage sickbay, Counting bells knelling classes to a close” , here Heaney used alliteration in this stanza to accentuate the 'C' sound in the following words: collage, classes and close, by doing so Heaney repeats the 'C' sound and therefore creates rhythm in the …show more content…
The stanzas or verses only have three lines so they are easy on the eye to read, so you it draws your attention and gives importance to the shorter last