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The poem makes extensive use of onomatopoeia and a simile that compares the behaviour of the amphibians to warfare ("Some sat poised like mud grenades") amongst other techniques. "Mid-Term Break" is a reflection on the death of Heaney's younger brother, Christopher, while Heaney was at school. [2]
ISBN. 978-0-57-119493-3. Opened Ground: Poems 1966–1996 is a 1998 poetry collection by Seamus Heaney, published by Faber and Faber. It was published to replace his earlier 1990 collection titled New Selected Poems 1966–1987, including poems from said collection and later poems published after its release. [ p 1] Critics have described the ...
from "Mid-Term break", Death of a Naturalist (1966) Heaney was born on 13 April 1939 at the family farmhouse called Mossbawn, between Castledawson and Toomebridge ; he was the first of nine children. In 1953, his family moved to Bellaghy, a few miles away, which is now the family home. His father was Patrick Heaney (d. October 1986), a farmer and cattle dealer, and the eighth child of ten born ...
Lucrezia de' Medici by Bronzino or Alessandro Allori, generally believed to be the subject of the poem. " My Last Duchess " is a poem by Robert Browning, frequently anthologised as an example of the dramatic monologue. It first appeared in 1842 in Browning's Dramatic Lyrics. [1] The poem is composed in 28 rhyming couplets of iambic pentameter ...
Wikisource has original text related to this article: Desiderata. " Desiderata " (Latin: "things desired") is a 1927 prose poem by the American writer Max Ehrmann. The text was widely distributed in poster form in the 1960s and 1970s.
Caesura. A caesura (/ sɪˈzjʊərə /, pl. caesuras or caesurae; Latin for "cutting"), also written cæsura and cesura, is a metrical pause or break in a verse where one phrase ends and another phrase begins. It may be expressed by a comma (,), a tick ( ), or two lines, either slashed (//) or upright (||). In time value, this break may vary ...
It also includes several prose poems from Heaney's limited volume Stations (1975), as well as excerpts from Sweeney Astray (1983), Heaney's verse translation of the Irish legend Buile Shuibhne. The collection includes poems such as " The Haw Lantern ", " Mid-Term Break ", " Follower " and "Clearances".
A Difficult Birth, Easter 1998" is a poem by Gillian Clarke. The poem references the Good Friday Agreement , where Unionists and Nationalists in Northern Ireland agreed to engage in a peace process. [1]