Both poems relate to the poets past and are certainly associated with a specific loss of a loved one - one a literal loss and the other a subconscious loss.

Example of alliteration in mid term break. Literary device make poem better and make it interesting to read. With the title Mid-Term Break Heaney suggests that this is a poem focusing on a childhood memory. Mid-Term Break which I found to be a very touching and poignant poem describes the loss of the poets younger brother.

In this poem I will explain how the poem is very effective at conveying the complex emotions of how Seamus Heaney feels when he loses his younger brother in a road accident. Reminds us of funeral bells. The first stanza does not explain what the reason for the break was but Heaneys wait in the sick bay sets up a feeling that something is wrong.

We will look at examples of poetic techniques. We will study the poem Midterm Break by Irish poet Seamus Heaney and write our first folio piece. Furthermore there are a lot of literary devices that use by Seamus in this poem.

The reader discovers through reading the poem that Heaney returns home for the funeral of his younger brothers car accident. The alliteration in mid term break by. For example these lines from the first stanza.

I sat all morning in the college sick bay Counting bells knelling classes to a close. The diction chosen in this poem are not only for the. A four foot box a box for every year.

Since the definition of knelling is to give fourth a mournful and ominous sound 1. It also notes the way that grief may upset traditional social roles. For Example as Paul speaks to his mother he feels an incredible sadness due to the fact that it is no longer acceptable for him to show emotion.