The Early Purges

• Early


  Happening before an expected time (too quickly, soon, premature)
• Purge


  Get rid of (Remove, clear out, dismiss)
• The Early Purges


  Getting rid of something at a beginning
• Stanza


  paragraph in a poem
• Dan Taggart


  A person who is working on Heaney's farm
• Pitched


  Threw, throw
• Frail


  Weak
• Din


  a noise, usually unpleasant
• Soused


  stopped, quietened, to put out
• Sluiced


  Rinsed
• Sogged


  Damp, net, soaked, waterlogged
• Mealy


  Dark colours, mealybug
• Snared


  Catch, get caught
• Displaces


  moved
• False


  untrue, wrong
• Sentiment


  opinion, view belief
• Shrill


  High pitched, piercing sound
• Prodded


  Poked, persuade, forced
• Consider


  Think carefully, have the opinion of something
• Pest


  a living thin humans consider troublesome
• Implication


  saying something without directly saying it
• Callous


  insensitive or cruel
• Imagery


  "paws scraping", "glossy and dead", "mealy and crisp", "sogged remains", "frail metal sound"
• Sibilance


  "Soft paws scraping", "soon soused", "slung on the snout", "shone till he sluiced"
• Alliteration


  "out on the dunghill, glossy and dead" "shrill pups are prodded to drown"
• Simile


  "soft paws scraping like mad", "like wet gloves they bobbed and shone"
• Rhyme


  "in and din", "said and dead", "hung and dung", "town and drown"