Compare And Contrast Death Of A Naturalist And Seamus Heaney

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Register to read the introduction… Death of a naturalist starts with an ugly scene where blackberry picking starts with a positive screen. The first stanza of both poems is a nice atmosphere where Heaney describes the two places where the poems are happening. He uses lots of description to grip the reader and make them imagine that they are there and Heaney use lots of similes and metaphors for description.
In the second stanza for both poems Heaney goes from a warm atmosphere to a bad one with the frogs getting vengeance in death of a naturalist and the blackberries going mouldy in blackberry picking. The ends of both poems are also similar because he ends them on thought provoking sentence.

D H Laurence discord in childhood
Discord in childhood is about D H Laurence as a child lessening to his parents arguing and the emotions he felt whilst it was happening. He starts off the poem but describing the noises outside and setting the scene. The poem is dark as he uses lots of ugly verbs and adjectives to paint us a picture of this horrible memory. In the second stanza he starts to tell us about his parents sudden fight” within the house two voices arose in

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