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Mid-Term Break
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A level English (Heaney) Mind Map on Mid-Term Break, created by Mollie Rich on 09/04/2018.
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seamus heaney
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Mid-Term Break
Imagery
Child-like
"Counting bells knelling classes"
Child-like act
School bells
"close"
Waiting
Reflects the death
Church bells
ONOMATOPEA
"In his cot"
Colloquial term
So small and so young
Distance
"Four foot box"
box devalues the death
not a coffin
Seperates himself
Nature
"Poppy Bruise"
Semi-permanence
Imagining his brother without it
Heroic - war
Undeserving of death?
died at young age
Rememberence
Snowdrops and candles
Ritually for funerals
Symbolic of light and life
Death
"The corpse"
Dehumanises - separating from his brother
Stanza 6 finally brings in pronoun "him" - come to realisation
Overview
Deconstructs childhood innocence/ignorance
Retrospective look of childhood
Adult = remorse and regret - reflecting on struggles
Themes
Growing up
Family
Death
Tone
Traumatic
Sombre
Structure
7 stanzas, 3 lines per stanza
Final single line with rhyming Couplet
Act of death followed by realisation
Reached emotional maturity to deal with death
Closed distance
First person account - autobiographical
Personal memory
Stanza 6 - finally accept's brother's death
I saw him
enjambement
stops at I saw him - to highlight the shock and suddenness of the situation
Caesuras
Into the room. Snowdrops
Six weeks. Paler now
"met my father crying"
First realisation of what's happening
Contrast to usual father figure
Only one not crying - changed from a child
Rhyme
No specific rhythm or rhyme
Reflect the surprising/harsh nature of life
Full rhyming couplet at end
Reflect his childlike nature
Stands out inescapably - highlights the shock
Sense of finality
Heaney finally accepting it as a poet
Phonetics
Whispers
Sibilance - harsh
Tormented by the gossip
Hushed/awkward/sad atmosphere
"The baby cooed"
Childlike nature and innocence - bouncy emphatic rhythm
Direct contrast to the opening stanza's measured pace
Aware of the naivity of the baby
Language
"Hard blow"
Double Meaning
Emotional
Real impact of the car
Posaessive Pronouns
"my trouble" "my mother"
Deictic markers - aware of the timings and surroundings - grasping the reality of death
"All morning"
Next morning
At ten o'clock
At 2 o'clock
When I came in
Suggesting of entering grown up world of pain
Shake my hand
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