Comparing methods used to present the experience of death and loss Mid Term Break(TM), On My First Sonne(TM), and Tichbourne(TM)s Elegy(TM)

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Comparing methods used to present the experience of death and loss ‘Mid Term Break’, ‘On My First Sonne’, and ‘Tichbourne’s Elegy’

All three poems are about the loss and death of a loved one. The experience of losing someone is dreadful as we all know. I am going to compare how the experience of loss is portrayed in these three poems.

‘Mid Term Break’ is about how the writer had to cope with the death of his younger brother and how he had to cope when he came back from school.

The poet seems to be saying that going home was hard as everyone was different and had changed due to this tragic accident. There is no mention in this poem of God or religion.

The sentences are fairly short making you read it quite fast as you go along.

Heaney uses phrases and words in a way that we can all understand what he is trying to say. “I met my Father crying- He had always taken funerals in his stride.”

Heaney also uses similes and metaphors.

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“Bells knelling classes to a close”

“Wearing a poppy bruise on his left temple”

“Angry tearless sighs”

Some words Heaney uses are very powerful to show death and loss.

“A four foot box, a foot for every year” shows his bother was four. This phrase is the very last line bringing it to a very dramatic closure and makes you realize how bad it must be to loose your four year old bother.

“Angry tearless sighs”, this is powerful as you cant imagine coughing out angry tearless sighs and makes you think how awful it is to loose a child.

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