Compare and Contrast Death of a Naturalist, An Advancement of Learning

Compare and Contrast Death of a Naturalist, An Advancement of Learning and The Early Purges.In this essay I am going to discuss Death of a Naturalist, AnAdvancement of Learning and The Early Purges by Seamus Heaney. Iwill focus on the similarities and differences between these poetrys interms of what they are roughly, their language and themes.The first disclose of the three poems by Heaney that I have studied isDeath of a Naturalist. This poem is well-nigh Heaney as a young child,exploring a field. He comes across frogspawn and remembers when histeacher would tell him about how the Daddy frog was called a bullfrog, and how the momma frog laid hundreds of little eggs and thiswas frogspawn. Heaney then writes about when he used to steal thefrog spawn and put it into a jam quiver for school, and how he wouldwatch them grow into tadpoles. When he finishes describing what hedid, Heaney starts a new stanza. The mood changes in stanza in thisstanza. Heaney describes the frogs as angr y, and that they werecroaking in a guidance he had never heard The air was thick with a basschorus. Heaney claims in the poem, that the frogs were angry at himfor stealing the frogspawn when he was younger. Heaney sickened,turned and ran. The second poem entitled An Advancement ofLearning. This poem is about Heaney taking a walk along an embankmentand coming across a rat that was crawling out of the river. Heaneywrites I turned down the path in cold sweat. However he comes acrossanother rat. Heaney claims that the rat was staring at him, perniciously listening. He describes the rat having raindrop eyes.Heaney stares back at the rat forgetting how he used to panic whenhe lived on a farm. The rat ... ...In conclusion, the important similarities between the three poems are inthe language used. By this I mean that of particular phrases such aswar words and the usage of similes and alliteration and the fact thatthey are all about animals and fear. The main differences are thatThe Ear ly Purges is a different structure to the other two poems. Ihave learnt about parts of Seamus Heaneys childhood and his copingwith fear. I have also learnt different techniques to use in poems,for example alliteration. I have enjoyed the excitement Heaney buildsup in each poem. My favourite poem is An Advancement of Learningbecause I can understand and picture everything Heaney describes. Alsoit is my most preferred poem repayable to the fact I can relate toconfronting a fear and not having a path to turn to and then the fearswam away from me, so I can relate to the story.