Death of a Naturalist 1966 *

Question 1

context

Answer 1

• born in county Derry North ireland 1939
• most poetry about countryside and farm life that he knew as a boy
• trouble increase in 1970’s due to arguments? with England
• poetry often triggered by small, intimate memories

Question 2

paras for given

Answer 2

• as a child found nature intersting
• as grew up found it gross
• loss of innocence - war, politics

Question 3

paras for comparison with prelude

Answer 3

• discusss comfort foudn in childhood
• show appreciation for nature
• perceptiosn on nature when they grow up is different

Question 4

para 1

Answer 4

comfort found in childhood due to nature
- “strong gauze of sound around the smell”
- “best of all”
- “on shelves at school”
- “daddy frog” “mammy frog”
- “Mrs Walls would tell us how”

Question 4

para 2

Answer 4

show appreciation for nature:
- “bubbles gargellled dleicately”
- “best of al was the warm thick slober”
- “specks to range on widnow sills at home”
- “wove a strong gauze of sound around the smell”

Question 5

para 3

Answer 5

perceptions on nature and schildhood whe grow up is diff:
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