Seamus Heaney : Mid-Term Break and Personal Helicon
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The final line stands out of the rest of the poem. Almost every word is special so that the reader must take in the line's message and the shock and deep grief that the family must have felt. There is shock for the reader reading it for the first time also, when they discover who has died and that he was only four years old. The little four-year-old child who suffered a hard hit to the head from a speeding car was well written in the poem. The mood is set almost immediately in the second line: Counting bells knelling classes to a close. I noticed how Heaney uses an alteration to the funereal sound of the bells and the feeling of time dragging.
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