death of a naturalist

• "every spring"
• "daddy frog ... mammy frog"
• "the great slime kings"
• "gathered there for vengeance and I knew that if I dipped my hand the spawn would clutch it"
• "mud grenades"
• Heaney was raised on a farm in a rural area
• his brother died when he was young and he had to grow up that day
• themes are time passing, place and nature
• • stanza 1- past and childhood
  • stanza 2- present and adulthood
• title represents the loss of his love for nature