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Author of 'Mid-Term Break'
Author of 'Mid-Term Break'
Seamus Heaney
Subject of 'Mid-Term Break'
Subject of 'Mid-Term Break'
Death of Heaney's younger brother, Christopher
Structure of 'Mid-Term Break'
Structure of 'Mid-Term Break'
Seven tercets + one final standalone line
Main themes in 'Mid-Term Break'
Main themes in 'Mid-Term Break'
Grief, loss, childhood, maturity, expressing sorrow
Seamus Heaney's lifespan
Seamus Heaney's lifespan
1939-2013
Year Heaney won Nobel Prize in Literature
Year Heaney won Nobel Prize in Literature
1995
Where speaker waits at poem's start
Where speaker waits at poem's start
College sick bay
Sound imagery in opening stanza
Sound imagery in opening stanza
Knelling of bells
Significance of father crying in poem
Significance of father crying in poem
Shows depth of loss - he'd taken funerals in stride before
Baby sibling's reaction in poem
Baby sibling's reaction in poem
Laughs and coos, unaware of tragedy
How mother's grief is described
How mother's grief is described
'Coughed out angry tearless sighs'
Final line of 'Mid-Term Break'
Final line of 'Mid-Term Break'
'A four-foot box, a foot for every year'
Brother's age at death in poem
Brother's age at death in poem
Four years old
Name of Heaney's brother who died
Name of Heaney's brother who died
Christopher
Tone of 'Mid-Term Break'
Tone of 'Mid-Term Break'
Controlled and restrained