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Mapa Mental por mcallister conor, atualizado more than 1 year ago
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Criado por mcallister conor
mais de 9 anos atrás
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'Mid-Term Break'
by Seamus
Heaney
- The poem deals with the death of a 4 year old boy
- It is told through the eyes of the
boy's brother (Heaney)
- Describes how Heaney copes
with the tragic death
- It is told through the eyes of the
boy's brother (Heaney)
- In the opening stanza we see Heaney
waiting in the sick bay at his boarding
school
- He was unaware of what has hppened
and we sense he was bored
- "I sat all morning in the college sick bay,
counting bells knelling classes to a close"
- He was unaware of what has hppened
and we sense he was bored
- The despair of the event and the trauma the family
were going through was depicted by the boy's father
crying on the porch
- "In the porch I met my Father crying, he'd always
taken funerals in his stride"
- "And big Jim Evans saying it was a hard
blow"
- "In the porch I met my Father crying, he'd always
taken funerals in his stride"
- Heaney, as he was only a boy at the time, was
embarrassesd by the 'old men' approaching him to
shake his hand
- "I was embarrassed by old men standing up to shake my hand
and tell me they were 'sorry for my trouble'"
- Shows lack of comprehension for the
situation
- "I was embarrassed by old men standing up to shake my hand
and tell me they were 'sorry for my trouble'"
- There's a sense of quiet throughout, as a reverence
for the dead
- 'Whispers'
- 'Tearless sighs'
- At this point, it is unclear who has died
- 'Whispers'
- In the fith stanza, the corpse arrives in an ambulance,
where it all seems quite clinical and emotionless
- "Stitched and bandaged by the nurses"
- This is another example of Heaneys' lack of
understanding as a boy
- "Stitched and bandaged by the nurses"
- In the sixth stanza, he goes up to a room full of
candles and snowdrops
- Snowdrops are fitting given the age of the boy: white
flowers represent purity
- Snowdrops are fitting given the age of the boy: white
flowers represent purity
- Heaney gives us a chilling image of the
boy in the coffin
- "I saw him for the first time in 6 weeks, paler now
with a poppy bruise on his left temple"
- Poppy is a flower associated with the dead
- The red colour accurately reflects the colour of
blood and a bruise
- "I saw him for the first time in 6 weeks, paler now
with a poppy bruise on his left temple"
- Simile used to describe the
coffin
- "He lay in the 4
foot box as in his
cot"
- He looked peaceful and at rest as the
car bumper 'knocked him clear' upon
impact
- "He lay in the 4
foot box as in his
cot"
- The final line emphasises how tragic the event was, as
the coffin was so small, showing the youth of the
victim
- "A 4 foot box, a foot box, a foot for every year"
- The line is left on its own, to place an even stronger
emphasis on the shock and tragedy of the event
- "A 4 foot box, a foot box, a foot for every year"
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