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I am Seamus Heaney and this Glogster is about Mid-Term Break.
Mid-Term Break relates to the poem Death of a Naturalist because both poems contain themes of death. Both of the interpretations include expressing Heaney's death as a child and the need to grow up. This is present in the contrasting emotions in Mid-term break though the physical representation of his childhood as well as the syntactic field of the poem. This relates to Dath of a Naturalist where the frogs are the physical representation and the teacher a symbol of being educated. Education is also a link between the poems which is a motif of transending into a grown-up.
Death of a Naturalist
Links between Mid-term Break and Digging include the strong family link.. In Mid-term Break, Heaney is pining for his brother and in Digging, he is reflecting upon his ansestors. There is also the sense of duty that Heaney feels to his family because in Digging he feels as if he ought to dig like his family, but instead he picks up his pen to 'dig' too. In Mid-term break the duty to his family was in being a digger. The digging is also metaphorical in that it relates to Irish history.
Digging
At a potato digging and mid-term break have strong links within the theme of 'death'. At a potato digging links towards the Irish potato famine and the history that Heaney feels linked to behind it. The links are likewise in Mid-Term Break when Heaney explores the emotions he felt when his brother died.
At a potato Digging
