mid term break

5/20/2018 Mid Term Break

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BIRTH DATE : April 13, 1939 (Age: 72)

PLACE OF BIRTH : Castledwson, County Londonderry,

Ireland

EDUCATION : Queen's University, Belfast

OCCUPATION : Educator, Academic Author,

Playwright, Poet

An Irish poet - his native land

FatherPatrick Heaney - farmer

BIODATA

SEAMUS JUSTIN HEANEY


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Anahorish Primary School - twelve years-old

Scholarship to St. Columb's College, a Catholic boarding school

situated in Derry.

Christopher, was killed in a road accident at the age of four while

Heaney was studying at St. Columb's.

The poems "Mid-Term Break" and "The Blackbird of Glanmore"focus on the death of Christopher.


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The poem begins with the narrator recalling being a child in

the college sick bayhe was not ill and had been taken

there as something had happened.

A neighbour then arrived and took the poet home, where it

becomes clear that something terrible has happened.

His father was crying and this was entirely out of characterand the family friend Jim Evans was there.

Old men greet the child and shake his hand.

Then the body arrives at 10 o clock.

The poem ends with a change of scene and time, as the

child enters the room of his dead brother the next morning

and he attempts to make sense of what has happened.


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Poem is mainly about the poets younger brothers

death.

When he was away from his house, his brother dead

by a car accident.

Describes about the events on the funeral day.

Family members reaction

~ Father is crying in the porch.

~ Baby is cooing and laughing

~ Mother is holding the poets hand without cry.


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HAPPY FAMILY

~AT THE BEGINNING~


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I sat all morning in thecollege sick bay


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In the porchI met my father crying


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In hers and coughed out

angry tearless sighs


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SnowdropsAnd candles soothed bedside

He lay in the four foot boxas in his cot


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SUDDEN DEATH

Counting bells knelling


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Q & A session

1 ) Describe about Seamus Heaneys favourite matter

in his writing?

2 ) Do you think that S.Heaneys life had any influence

on this poem? Why?

3 ) In 3 words, describe how the poem made you feel?

4 ) What do you think is the meaning of the poems last

line?

Native land most especially about rural life and Irishhistorical events.

Yes. His infant brothers sudden death influences him

on this poem.

Sad, tragic, sorrowful, shock

Four foot box, foot for every year.

(Represents the boys age.)


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