When all the other were away at mass

• By: Seamus Heaney
• Themes

  1. relationship between a mother and her child
  2. love
  3. death
• “Let fall one by one like solder weeping off the soldering iron“ - simile
• “ little pleasant splashes from each others work would bring us to our senses”- onomatopoeia
• “ her breath in mine, our fluent dipping knives never closer the rest of our lives“- theme of death, rhyme, alliteration