Death Of A Naturalist Flashcards
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Quotes
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- ‘Flax dam festered … rotten’
- ‘The punishing sun’
- ‘But best of all was the warm thick slobber’
- ‘In the shade on the banks’
- ‘Green and heavy headed’
- ‘Bubbles gargled delicately’
- ‘Invaded … Poised like mud-grenades’
- ‘The great slime kings’
- ‘And how he croaked and how the mammy frog…’
- ‘For they were yellow in the sun and brown … In rain.’
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Additional points
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Process of despising nature catalysed by his brother’s death
He grew up on a farm - exposed to think he says in the poem
Autobiographical poem
