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Mid-term break(Seamus Heaney)
Stanza 1:
Trouble may lie ahead: While at school he is in the sickbay. The school bells
The poem is an elegy that knell like funeral bells. His neighbour, not his parents, drive him home.
relates the death of Heaney’s SACAI JUN 2021
brother. He/she was four years
old when they were hit by a Stanza 2:
car. SACAI JUN 2021 Idiom - ‘in his stride’: He deals with things without a fuss. SACAI JUN 2021
The different settings in the Line 9:
poem: This has never been done before: he has always been treated as a child.
Now the men treat him like an adult.SACAI JUN 2021
The sickbay. The porch at his
home. Inside the house
(perhaps the lounge) In the Summary:
room (bedroom) where the
coffin is. SACAI JUN 2021 The poem is about the death of
Heaney’s toddler brother and
how people (including himself)
react to it. SACAI JUN 2021
This funeral is different for the
father:
He is sorrowful because this is
the funeral of his son. SACAI JUN
2021
Simile “in the four foot box as
in his cot” The child is lying in
the coffin as he would when
sleeping in his cot
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