Poetry Introduction

Question 1

How should I start the very first line of the introduction

Answer 1

In Seamus Heaney’s Death of a Naturalist poetry collection … refer to question and how this is achieved in the poems

Question 2

What 3 main points should you cover on ‘Death of a Naturalist’ (DOAN)?

Answer 2

• childhood fascination with frog life cycle and nature turning into disgust and fear, representing growing up
• how the question relates to the poem
• structure and impact

Question 3

What 3 main points should you cover on ‘Blackberry Picking’ (BP)?

Answer 3

• how structure is the same but there is a bit of bleeding, more subtle change
• dramatic change from childhood to adulthood shown through black berry picking, does t want to work in agriculture
• mortality

Question 4

What 3 main points should you cover on Personal Helicon (PH)?

Answer 4

• the change in tone, looks at a mature on positive outlook on growing up
• heroic quatrains show reflection on views on growing up as Heaney aged
• still shown through nature, his childhood obsession with wells