Death of a Naturalist Flashcards
what are the first two lines of the poem?
‘All year the flax-dam festered in the heart/ Of the townland; green and heavy headed’
what are the last few lined of the poem?
‘The great slime kings/ Were gathered there for vengeance and I knew/ That if I dipped my hand the spawn would clutch it’
what are four quotes relating to childhood innocence?
‘you could tell the weather by frogs too/ For they were yellow in the sun and brown/ In rain.’
‘daddy frog’, ‘Mammy frog’ (Irish)
‘ Miss Walls would tell us’
‘On shelves at school’
what are three quotes relating to nature?
‘There were dragon-flies, spotted butterflies,’
‘The fattening dots burst into nimble-/ Swimming tadpoles.’
what are three quotes relating to a change of heart?
‘gross-bellied frogs were cocked’
‘I sickened, turned, and ran.’
‘a coarse croaking that I had not heard/ Before.’
neon line:
‘The slap and plop were obscene threats.’
who?
Seamus Heaney - 1st person child poet speaker
what/why
his change of opinion towards frogs
where
Ireland, farming community
when?
1966
what is the structure?
blank verse - unrhymed iambic pentameter
