Death of a naturalist

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Alex kelly

Cards (8)

  • “Bubbles gargled delicately, bluebottles wove a strong gauze of sound around the smell” - synesthesia
  • “Dragonflies, spotted-butterflies but best of all the thick warm slobber of frogspawn”
  • “Mammy frog“
    ”daddy frog”
    ”croaked”
  • “angry frogs invaded the flax-dam”
  • “Some sat poised like mud grenades”
  • The poem Death Of A Naturalist, written by Seamus Heaney, is about Heaney’s view of Nature and how it changes as he grows and becomes more knowledgable of his surroundings
  • The poem presents the themes of : NATURE & CHANGE
  • “I Sickened, turned, and ran“