Monday 10 January 2011

Seamus Heaney - Death of a Naturalist


Positive words/phrases within the poem;
-'heart'
-'green'
-'sun'
-'bubbles gargled'
-'delicately'
-'spotted-butterflies'
Negative words/phrases within the poem;
-'festered'
-'heavy headed'
-'rotted there'
-'huge sods'
-'punishing'
-'sweltered'
-'strong gauze'

An oxymoron is used within the fifth line; 'bubbles gargled delicately' - this is a contradictory term used in conjunction in the sense that usually when bubbles gargle, they do so fiercely and wildly not in a calm and chilled way. A metaphor is also identified in line 6; Seamus states 'Bluebottles wove a strong gauze of sound around the smell' he is attempting to portray that a bandage like gauze of sound is being wrapped around smell - when theoretically this could not be possible.

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