Key quotations

• the Title ‘death’


  Symbolises the speaker loss of innocence as he grows up
• ‘Sweltered’ ‘festered’ and ‘gargled’


  The tone of the poem at the beginning is almost enthusiastic. suggest the speaker is relishing the vile smells of the dam
• ‘Jampotfuls’ ‘fattening dots’ and ‘mammy frog’


  Suggest childhood innocence
• ‘Then one hot day’


  The time becomes more aware of the danger ‘angry frogs’
• Final words ‘spawns would clutch it’


  Shows the contrast with when he would collect ‘jellied speck’- he has grown up and longer want to play the game of his childhood