death of a naturalist quotes

Question 1

analyse ‘f_______’ and ‘r_____’

Answer 1

‘festered’ and ‘rotted’
both language relate to death and decay - could foreshadow the metaphorical death of the Naturalist or the death of his love for nature - narrator becomes repulsed by nature

Question 2

analyse ‘B______ g______ d_________’

Answer 2

‘Bubbles gargled delicately’ - oxymoron shows childish enjoyment of something disgusting

Question 3

analyse ‘p_______ s__’

Answer 3

‘punishing sun’
- confrontational tone - foreshadows the war-like ending of the poem
- sun is personified to make its heat seem oppressive

Question 4

analyse ‘B__ b___ of a__’, ‘d____ f___’, ‘m_____ f___’ and ‘M___ W____’

Answer 4

‘But best of all’, ‘daddy frog’, ‘mammy frog’ and ‘Miss Walls’ - introduction of childlike language/dialect and first-person voice show the narrator is slipping into their childhood self - children have a habit of re-telling what their teacher told them in great detail - Irish - ‘mammy’ - avoids talking about sex - taboo (something you don’t talk about) - strict catholic boarding school - SIN - attached to sin

Question 5

analyse ‘I______’, ‘o______ t______’, ‘g_______’

Answer 5

‘Invaded’, ‘obscene threats’, ‘grenades’
violent language - makes the frog seem threatening

Question 6

analyse ‘h__ d__’ and ‘r___’

Answer 6

‘hot day’ and ‘rank’ - setting of stanza 2 echoes stanza 1 — emphasises that nature hasn’t changed, just the speaker’s opinion has