Death of a naturalist

Question 1

“Bubbles gargled delicately”

Answer 1

Uses onomatopoeia to show sound of bubbles.

• “Delicately” shows how he views what most would think of as disgusting in a positive light.
• speaker relishing aspects of nature which are disgusting

Question 2

“Festered, rotted, sweltered”

Answer 2

• adopts untainted vessel of child self,
• Ominous tone created, already sense of nature being unforgiving - rather it emphasise the visceral pleasure he derives
  from the sensory experience

Question 3

“Wove a strong gauze of sound”

Answer 3

• Use of synthesia incorporates assonacce elongating the words, adding to the enjoyment of nature
• sheltered from direct unpleasant experiences

Question 4

“Mammy frog”

Answer 4

• Childish vernacular used infantilising him, and firmly placing it in irish context
• Repetition of ‘frog’ echoes a childish report of his day

Question 5

“One hot day when fields were rank with cow dung”

Answer 5

• Cacophonous sounds created in ‘rank…dung’, with hrsh consonance emphasise the disgust within his eyes – innocent boy had faded
• Along with ‘coarse croaking’, similar to ‘course’ representing his adolescent transformation
• Croaking sign of mating, as grows up he realises

Question 6

‘Burst…angry frogs…mud grenades..vengeance’

Answer 6

semantic field of war emphasise no longer with nature
Grave reprucussions from childish actions
Nature ceases to inspire awe, direct consequence of brother loss