How Seamus Heaney Evokes the Sensations and Emotions of Childhood by Comparing any Three of his Poems.

28 September 2003 How Seamus Heaney Evokes the Sensations and Emotions of Childhood by Comparing any Three of his Poems I am going to compare "Churning Day", "An Advancement of Learning" and Mid-Term Break". The topics I am going to cover are Heaney's use of senses, the changes of mood, how he conveys emotions, his subject matters and the structure of his poems. First I am going to look at Heaney's use of the senses, which he …

…Heaney writes the poems as if he were a child. "Mid-Term Break" was very different from the other two poems because it is written mainly with cold, hard fact and emotional vocabulary rather than using the senses, similes or metaphors excessively. Heaney achieves the aim in his poetry of giving the reader a clearer idea of what is happening by using the senses, rhythm, emotional vocabulary and looking at his childhood through a child's eyes.