Mid-Term Break - Seamus Heany 🚗

What’s the themes?

Grief, loss and death

metaphor and imagery, symbolises remembrance and the injury of his brother

Wearing a poppy bruise

simile, comparing his brother sleeping and dead

He lay in a four foot box as in his cot

Alliteration, emphasises how young his brother was

A four foot box a foot for every year

foreshadowing and pun, how his brother got hit by a car and how the sudden death was difficult to take in for the family

hard blow