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An appreciation of Death of a Naturalist
Title: An appreciation of Death of a Naturalist
Category: Literature / Poetry
Details: Words: 608 | Pages: 2.6 (approximately 235 words/page)
An appreciation of Death of a Naturalist
?Death of a naturalist? is a poem about growing up and loss of innocence. The poem is organised into two sections, which follows the boy through childhood. The boy becomes a reflective Adult, from an unquestioning boy. It seems Seamus Heaney is concerned with the progression from innocence to experience. This is shown in the first paragraph when he talks like a child: ?Miss Walls would tell us how.? This shows the fact that the …showed first 75 words of 608 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 608 total…that he is now beginning to experience.
The conclusion I have of this poem is that it re-creates the confrontation with the fact that life is not what it seems. From a place where the boy was care free, to an ambiguous world. Heaney succeeded in creating a good poem by building up a totally convincing account of a childhood experience that deals with the excitement, pain and confusion of growing up in this world.
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