Death of a Naturalist Flashcards
1
Q
What year was Death of a Naturalist written?
A
1966
2
Q
Who wrote Death of a Naturalist?
A
Seamus Heaney
3
Q
What does Heaney write about in Death of a Naturalist?
A
childhood and growing up around nature
4
Q
Why does Heaney write about nature and growing up?
A
-grew up in a rural area (father was a farmer)
-brother died at 4 years old
5
Q
Death of a Naturalist: 3 themes
A
-nature vs human
-change
-innocence
6
Q
Death of a Naturalist is written in blank verse meaning…
A
it us unrhymed - change is unpredictable
7
Q
Death of a Naturalist: “All year the flax-dam…
A
festered in the heart”
8
Q
Death of a Naturalist: “the warm thick slobber of frogspawn that…
A
grew like clotted water”
9
Q
Death of a Naturalist: “The fattening dots…
A
burst”
10
Q
Death of a Naturalist: “I sickened, turned, and…
A
ran”
