death of a naturalist quotes

• " then one hot day"

  • a sharp contrast between his perspective as a child, fascinated and curious about the natural world, and his later attitude.
  • signifies passing of time

  'rank'

  • unpleasant atmosphere created
• "i sickened, turned, and ran"


  • short sentence to quicken pace
  • dramatic climax
  • triplet of action words
  • reinforces his new found disgust
• "warm thick slobber of frogspawn that grew like clotted water"


  juxtaposition of 'warm' and 'thick'

  • paints unpleasant imagery

  'frogspawn'

  • signifies innocence - in the past collecting it was a fascination

  'clotted water'

  • oxymoron - shows the inconsistency in the frogspawn