Death Of A Naturalist

Question 1

Death of a naturalist background info

Answer 1

About how a boy used to collect frogspawn

Shines nature in a negative scary light with lots of negative imagery compared to the amount of positive in the poem

Question 2

Negative imagery used

Answer 2

Shade(suggests dark side of nature)
Flax dam festered (foreshadows how the writer feels at the end of the poem)
Fattening dots burst(violent imagery of frogspawn)
Croaked(negative language onomatepia for the sound bull frogs make)
In rain(sadness loss of innocence)
Invaded the flax dam(negative language about the movement of the frogs)
Angry frogs
Cocked (threatening)

Question 3

Positive language

Answer 3

Garbled delicately(offers contrast to negative language)
Yellow in the sun( contrasts the negative’brown in the rain’)
No other positive language really

Question 4

Other key info

Answer 4

Specks line to miss walls shows the reader has a clear interest in nature and habitats
Final line’that if I dipped my hand the spawn would clutch it’ shows how he fears now
Contrast compared to beginning
Poem shows his changing views of nature
Start of his poem(youth) he wasn’t afraid ‘I would fill jampots of the jellied specks)