DEATH OF A NATURALIST

Question 1

Poet, dates

Answer 1

Seamus Heaney, 1966

Question 2

POET CONTEXT!!

Answer 2

• major poet of 20th century
• from northern ireland
• REGIONAL POET!
• gives voice to people of northern ireland, working class, writes about childhood

Question 3

TIME CONTEXT!!

Answer 3

IRISH TROUBLES!!!!!
poem written in 1966 -> in the middle of the irish troubles
frogs give idea of imminant attack / friends that are now enemies ie english occupants that are now enemies / frogs are the english who are now invading ireland

Question 4

Themes?

Answer 4

Losing innocence, child growing up in conflict zone

death of a naturalist -> death of innocence?

Question 5

Form and structure

Answer 5

Blank verse = epics
Childhood = epic
Varied unrhymed iambic pentameter
Long stanza broken by line 21 illustrates change between innocence and threatening sections

Question 6

Link to (Innocence / corruption/ conflict)??

Answer 6

London

Loss of innocence through conflict, oppresion and corruption
Childs eyes make beautiful seem beuatiful