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Mid-term break
(Seamus Heaney)
“Mid-Term Break” describes the aftermath of a
tragedy: the speaker's four-year-old brother has
been hit by a car and killed. But the poem
doesn't spend a lot of time describing the
accident or memorializing the dead child.
Instead, the poem focuses on the way that other
people respond to this tragedy.
The poem is an elegy that relates the death of
Summary:
Heaney’s brother. He/she was four years old
when they were hit by a car. SACAI JUN 2021 The poem is about the death of
Heaney’s toddler brother and how
people (including himself) react to it.
SACAI JUN 2021
@Juffrou_Ansie
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About the poet:
Seamus Justin Heaney- Was an Irish poet,
playwright and translator. He was born on the
13th April 1939 near Castledawson, Northern
Island. He passed away on the 30th August 2013
(aged 74) He received a Nobel Prize in Literature
in 1995. Heaney was one of nine children. His
younger brother Christopher was killed in a road
accident while Heaney was studying at St
Columb’s. The poem “Mid-Term Break” is related
to his brothers death.
@Juffrou_Ansie
Mid-term break
(Seamus Heaney)
“Mid-Term Break” describes the aftermath of a
tragedy: the speaker's four-year-old brother has
been hit by a car and killed. But the poem
doesn't spend a lot of time describing the
accident or memorializing the dead child.
Instead, the poem focuses on the way that other
people respond to this tragedy.
The poem is an elegy that relates the death of
Summary:
Heaney’s brother. He/she was four years old
when they were hit by a car. SACAI JUN 2021 The poem is about the death of
Heaney’s toddler brother and how
people (including himself) react to it.
SACAI JUN 2021
@Juffrou_Ansie
, 2
About the poet:
Seamus Justin Heaney- Was an Irish poet,
playwright and translator. He was born on the
13th April 1939 near Castledawson, Northern
Island. He passed away on the 30th August 2013
(aged 74) He received a Nobel Prize in Literature
in 1995. Heaney was one of nine children. His
younger brother Christopher was killed in a road
accident while Heaney was studying at St
Columb’s. The poem “Mid-Term Break” is related
to his brothers death.
@Juffrou_Ansie
