Presenting Death in Poetry
Presenting Death in Poetry The four poets present death in many but different effective ways. In.Mid
Term Break. by Seamus Heaney a young boy has died. It is written fromthe
point of view of an older brother but this still makes this a very emotional
poem because it is about a young boy having to deal with the fact that his four
year old brother has been killed by a car. The poet presents death as being a
very easy thing to happen, that the one .poppy bruise. could have killed this
young child. Heaney uses many images in the poem so that you can almost
feel the emotion that the family can feel. Personification and metaphors are
used to create a calm and peaceful environment around the body. This death
is shown as tragic but is not convey in a dramatic way. The poem isvery
peaceful. The body of the child was not hideously cut or dramatic, just a
simple bruise. This is why the poem is just simple and I think this is how the
poet creates a calming image to death. In .On the train. by Gillian Clarke, she writes about death in a very personal
way. The poem is written about the Paddington Rail crash and about all of the
people who lost their lives in it. Clarke also presents this death as something
so easy to happen. The people who died where just having a normal train
journey that they probably take every day, just like she was. She hears the
news over the radio and imagines all of the people across the country hearing
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