death of a naturalist

• "coarse croaking"

  • cacophony
  • alliteration
  • links to a sense of fear
• "yellow in the sun and brown in the rain"

  • oxymoronic imagery
  • compares childhood innocence to adulthood
• themes

  • Childhood innocence
  • Irish history and culture
  • self discovery
  • history and the past
  • Man and the natural world
  • farming
• collection

  death of a naturalist - 1966