Seamus Heaney - Mid-Term Break - Analysis. Poetry Lecture by Dr. Andrew Barker

MID-TERM BREAK. One of the finest "Introduction to Poetry" verses in existence , "Mid-Term Break" is about a child who returns from boarding school for the funeral of a relative. This lecture concentrates on the suspense involved in the first reading of the poem, when the reader does not know the plot, nor what is going to happen, or who has died. A poem that contains one of the most beautiful lines in literature: "Snowdrops / And candles soothed the bedside; I saw him / For the first time in six weeks. Paler now."
Warning: Contains profanity.

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