About death childhood and discovery
Passage of life, coming of age
Title – Is a break of the boys life before enjoy his life he’s gone
Enjambment is used – AESTHETIC
Very raw, nothing has been expressed
Sense of foreboding that something is going wrong
Aesthetics – Techniques the particular feel of the topic
Affective – how it affects the reader
Not empathy but a deep case of sympathy
Very poignant poem, With using a form of emotion Heaney brings out a deep sorrow
Focuses more on the actions of the body rather than emotion
Baby – Ironic
Not very emotive, however emotions are expressed by adults
Never expresses emotions, keeping in his emotions intact, in doing so focusing so much on his actions the ethos of his sadness comes through
Parents crying, therefore he has to be the man to help his parents
Sympathizes for the child for families grief
LAST LINE EPIGRAM –> Height of child = a measurement of grief
Requiem for the soliders
Death of soldiers
Great coat represents the soldiers
Reflecting the image of Ireland
The first line and the last line both mention barley, the food that sustained the rebels and grew out of their unmarked graves.
First and last line – resurrected – Jesus
Barley is a comparison with Jesus Christ tribute to their spirit brings out a patriotic side sonnet – normally a love poem form aesthesized
By describing the hillside as "blushing", Heaney expresses the vast amount of blood that was shed
Blushing = aestehsized
ALL THE BELOW WORDS ARE AEZTHICS
'Requiem for the Croppies' Glossary Croppies: Croppy boys were given that name because they cropped their hair like the peasants in the French Revolution of 1789. This fashion for cropped hair was associated with the anti-wig (and therefore, anti-aristocrat) French Revolutionaries. Infantry: Foot soldiers, those soldiers who occupy territory. Vinegar Hill: Battle site in County Wexford, Ireland, where the Irish rebels suffered a major defeat on