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Mid Term Break And Funeral Blues Analysis

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How do the poets present grief, loss and death in the two poems, Mid-term break and Funeral Blues?
The two poets Seamus Heaney and W.H Auden present grief, loss and death in their poems Mid-Term Break and Funeral Blues. Mid-Term Break is composed by Seamus Heaney; his poem is a perspective poem, that the poet observes the misery and loss in others. However, it varies from Funeral Blues which is written by W.H Auden. Auden used hyperbole to capture his grief and his tragedy and convey them to the world.
Mid-term Break is an elegy to Seamus Heaney’s brother who died in a car accident; the poet exposed the impact of his brother’s death on his family and outsiders. But the opening stanza starts with the poet at the sickbay ordinary kid who is …show more content…

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