Seamus Heaney. Comparing early purges mid-term break
...many poems. Two of them are the ‘Early purges’ and ‘Mid-term break’. Both poems are about Heaney’s childhood and both seem to show important periods during his life. ‘The Early purges’ is a poem about farm life and what happens on a farm. In the poem it shows a lot of emotion from Heaney but also it shows the way that Heaney starts to accept what6 goes on, on a farm. The poem also shows that adults are an influence to young children and those adults can teach us important things about life. The main point of the story is about the dearth of animals on a farm. The first stanza of ‘The early purges’ opens with a shocking statement, “I was six when I first saw kittens drown”. This shows that Heaney was only six when he had seen his first sign of death. This sentence by itself shows that the killing of the animals traumatizes Heaney. In the second line the statement “Scraggy wee shits” is used by Dan ~Taggart. The shows that Dan Taggart hasn’t remorse or sentiment for killing the animals. The use of an oxymoron ’Frail metal sound’ catches the readers attention. This does it by showing how weak the cats are a...