Death Of A Naturalist (doan Flashcards
(6 cards)
Nature quotes doan
“All year the Flax-dam festered in the heart”
“Heavy headed”
“Daily it sweltered in the punishing sun”
“Wove a strong gauze of sound around the smell”
“Warm thick slobber”
“Of frogspawn”
“Fattening dots burst into nimble Swimming tadpoles”
“Fields were rank”
“Angry frogs invaded”
“To a coarse croaking i had not heard”
“Air was thick”
“The slap and plop were obscene threats”
“Poised like mud grenades”
Power / war quotes doan
“Flax-dam festered”
“Heavy headed”
“Punishing sun”
“Amgry frogs invaded”
“The slaps and plops were obscene threats”
“Poised like mud grenades”
“I sickened, turned, and ran”
Love (young) quotes doan
“And” repetition
“Miss walls”
“All year the flax-dam festered in the heart”
“Bubbles gargled delicately” oxymoron
“Best of all was the warm thick slobber”
Time quotes doan
“All year the flax-dam festerd in the heart”
“Bubbles gargled delicately”
“Warm thick slobber”
“And”
“Angry frogs invaded”
“To a coarse croaking that i had not heard”
“I sickened, turned and ran”
Form and structure doan
33 lines long = split unevenly, 21and 11 = mirrors transformation in speaker
No formal rules or schemes
Abrupt Volta between two showing abrupt change
Poet doan
Seamus heany