Death of a naturalist Flashcards
Poet?
Seamus Heaney
About?
The narrator remembers how they used to collect frogspawn from a flax dam. They were enthusiastic about the frogspawn however as they grew up they found frogs disgusting.
Form and Structure:
First person narrator
Blank verse
Two stanzas
Q - Colloquial language
‘Miss Walls would tell us how the daddy frog’
Q - Innocence and repetition of conjunction ‘and’
‘And how he croaked and how the mammy frog laid hundreds of little eggs’
Q - First stanza, enjoying the frogspawn
‘but best of all was the warm thick slobber of frogspawn’
Q - Second stanza, disgusted by the frogspawn, last line, nightmarish image
‘the spawn would clutch it’
Q - Second Stanza, the frogspawn is frogs and they are authoritative over the narrator.
‘The great slime kings’
