Mid-Term Break

The title of Seamus Heaney's (1980) poem, Mid-Term Break, about a speaker who loses his four-year-old brother to an automobile accident is ironic. One typically expects to read of fun times, vacation, and general merriment during a student's "mid-term break," but this poem is one of loss, depression and "angry tearless sighs" due to the aftermath of the death of a small child being its subject, (Heaney, 1980, pp. 106-07). Through the use of poetic devices, Heaney is able to make us feel the pain of those suffering from the impact of this tragic loss of a child.

Heaney uses a number of poetic devices to increase the emotion and impact of the speaker's tragic loss. He uses alli

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