Common Themes in Poetry Essay -- Mid-Term Break Follower Poetry Poems

Common Themes in PoetryAfter drill and analysing numerous verses, I have chosen two examplesof the famous Irish Poet, Seamus Heaneys work Follower andMid-Term Break. Both poems relate to the poets past, and arecertainly associated with a specific exhalation of a loved one - one aliteral loss, and the other(a) a subconscious loss.Mid-Term Break, which I found to be a genuinely touching and poignantpoem, describes the loss of the poets younger brother, Christopherwhen Heaney was a child, hence the poem is of a childhood tragedy aswell as a loss. Its set in three places - the introduction issituated in the college rove bay the main body of the poem is set inHeaneys brothers funeral, and the last(a) backcloth is the small childsbedroom. The poet is awaiting his neighbours car in the college sickbay, as theyre waiver to escort him to the funeral. Evidence is givenof death in the second line - tally bells knelling classes to a c put downThis metaphorical sentence creates a morbid line from theout-set, and the alliteration and hard consonants suggest that thewait for his neighbours car is excruciatingly long and dashwhich underlines two things - childhood impatience and the fact thatsomething is troubling him. Change is sensed here also due to thefact that his neighbours are driving him home - as we know, thenegative change is Christophers death. Within the aspect of change,this is merely the tip of the iceberg, as legion(predicate) more unfamiliarexperiences await him.The childs prospective is cleverly brought into the second, third,fourth and fifth stanzas as a consequence of the poets confusion andthe contradictive impressions he witnesses as he walks into the fa... ...Seamus Heaneys childhood is a fairsummary of Mid-Term Break and Follower, both linked to a specificloss - one, the death of the poets four year old brother in a roadaccident the other, the loss of the poets father to old age. Bothpoems salute the poets use of transforming a situation from bad togood in Mid-Term Break, the room is non a deathly enclosure witha corpse within, but a scene of tranquillity soothed by candles,with a little boy wearing a poppy cudgel on his left templepeacefully travelling to Heaven in Follower, the setting is not aboring day in the fields ploughing, its a small boys idolisation ofhis father and attempt to follow in his footsteps. any(prenominal)differences exist between both poems, the message is oneLosing is one of the hardest things a human being can witness,but we all have to lose in the end.