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    poems are reminiscing about childhood experiences with the true forces of nature. You can tell that they are childhood experiences because of the language used. In Death of a Naturalist the things that tell you that it is a child speaking through Seamus Heaney are the things that this child does. The child collects ’jampotfuls’ of spawn and puts them on window-sills at home and shelves at school. Also the language used tells us that it is told through the words of a child. Words like daddy and mammy

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    Traditional and Intellectual Methods of Digging To break away from a tradition is often a means of upholding it. This is the case in “Digging‚” a poem written by Irish poet and playwright Seamus Heaney. Through alliteration that subtly alters tone‚ changes in tense that gently signify a change from real time to memory‚ imagery that appeals to all the senses‚ a free form that allows for the manipulation of stanzas‚ and the tying together of ideas through repetition‚ Heaney effectively communicates the importance

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    The comparison of two poems‚ ‘Follower’ by Seamus Heaney and‘Imitations’ by Dannie Abse The Poems ‘Follower’ and ‘Imitations’ are very alike in some ways but different in others. They have obvious points of comparisons and yet behind both poems is an individual story. Seamus Heaney‚ born in 1939 into a farming family‚ wrote ‘Follower’. He is Britain’s most admired poets and won the nobel prize for literature in 1995. Dannie Abse wrote ‘Imitations’‚ he was born in 1923 into a Jewish family in

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    played out against imagery‚ situations‚ descriptions and a background that constantly evoke the texture of Irish rural life. Often the focus is on the act of writing itself. Heaney`s ploughmen‚ thatcher‚ diviners and diggers are all figures of the poet at work. Interestingly enough these role models are all men. Heaney`s childhood world‚ true to life on an Irish farm in the forties‚ was a place where men and women had definite gendered roles. The aforementioned were all male farm roles while

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    Early Purges’ by Seamus Heaney and ‘Cat’s Funeral’ by E. V. Rieu ‘The Early Purges’ and ‘Cat’s Funeral’ are quite alike in that they are both about how a cat dies but at the same time they are extremely different. Even though they are about cats‚ the two poems have a different structure‚ different type of language and completely different emotions. One of the big differences between ‘The Early Purges’ and ‘Cat’s Funeral’ is the way the cats die. In ‘The Early Purges’ Heaney describes the way

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    Seamus Heaney in his poem Blackberry picking conveys the experience of picking blackberries by using imagery‚ metaphor and diction. In this poem‚ he states the steps used during blackberry picking and how upsetting it is to have your hard work go to waste. Heaney opens the poem by describing the weather condition which shows what time of the year is usually good for berries to be picked. Then‚ he goes further to describe the condition of berries and then states what to expect when you pick the

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    Anne Tyler’s Digging to America truly embraces the true values and unique attributes of America. As an American 20th century writer‚ Tyler explores the modern American culture and what it means to live in such a vast and diverse country. In the story‚ she lets us in on the lives of different characters from two separate American families‚ who struggle with their identities and try to find a sense of belonging. The story starts in an airport in Baltimore‚ where two families‚ the Yazdans and the Donaldsons

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    Pre-Feasibility Study Potato Flakes & Flour 1 TABLE OF CONTENTS Page 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7 8. 9. 10. 11. Objective Products Process Global Export Markets Global Import Markets Local Market Target Markets Raw Material Plant & Equipments Conclusion Role of PAMCO 3 3 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 10 2 OBJECTIVE: • To provide marketable and value added dehydrated potato products from raw potatoes for the use of food processing industry in Pakistan and abroad as well as end products for the consumer

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    The potato is a starchy‚ tuberous crop from the perennial Solanum tuberosum of the Solanaceae family (also known as the nightshades). The word may refer to the plant itself as well as the edible tuber. In the region of the Andes‚ there are some other closely related cultivated potato species. Potatoes were introduced outside the Andes region four centuries ago‚ and have become an integral part of much of the world’s cuisine. It is the world’s fourth-largest food crop‚ following rice‚ wheat and maize

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    one‚ the one is hard and cannot eat or picked. "You ate the first one‚ and its flesh was sweet" This line is also a metaphor for a human‚ they contain blood and their scent are sometimes sweet and soft that make you want to bite into their flesh. Heaney compares the barriers to thick wine to a summer day. When you think about wine‚ it relates to a religious

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