Context

• Who wrote "Death of a Naturalist"? (Name and Nationality)

  Seamus Heaney- Irish poet
• What type of community did Heaney come from?

  A farming community
• Heaney's poems are often about the Irish experience of war and the Irish experience of being a minority in Northern Ireland.
• Heaney often wrote about themes of childhood, nature (he had a rural upbringing) and politics.
• Heaney's brother died at age 4 due to a road accident, which profoundly affected Heaney causing him to explore the theme of loss of innocence.
• Seamus Heaney also described his childhood as "an intimate physical, creaturely existence"