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Death of a Naturalist by Seamus Heaney

12/2/2008 8:37:22 PM
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Death of a Naturalist
 
  All the year the flax-dam festered in the heart
Of the townland; green and heavy headed
Flax had r .........
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Ahmad Shiddiqi (10/9/2008 9:48:00 PM)
straightforward and honest! remain me of Mozart's Requiem! keep writing! could you read and comment on my poems too? thank you.
Johnny Muir (6/17/2008 7:55:00 AM)
Hi, I work for the BBC in Belfast and am working on a documentary to mark Seamus Heaney's 70th birthday. His work is studied (and written about in exams) by people all over the world and I am trying to find out what impact it has them. In this poem he writes about events in his childhood in Co Derry - yet it clearly has a resonance today. I would love to hear anyone's comments on what Heaney's poetry means to them. Tell me about individual poems that have made an impact on you and why!
Cheers,
johnny.muir@bbc.co.uk
Art Girl (2/22/2007 4:04:00 PM)
We acted this poem out in school. I was a frog. That was a weird day. But the poem is good
Katie Lawrence (5/22/2006 9:21:00 AM)
yeah my anthology says sails but snails seems more appropriate. i have my exam tomorrow :) lets just hope i dont have a question about this poem: P
Julia Colley (5/20/2006 7:38:00 AM)
In reply to your question about whether it reads 'sails' or 'snails', well i'm currently studying it for my GCSE exam on Tuesday and in our copy of the anthology it reads 'sails' which i guess would make way more sense than 'snails'! what versions have you come across that say 'snails'?
Margaret Roberts (10/16/2004 2:15:00 AM)
their loose necks pulsed like snails
some versions read
their loose necks pulsed like sails
Which is correct?

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