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What is the subject of 'Mid-Term Break' by Seamus Heaney?
What is the subject of 'Mid-Term Break' by Seamus Heaney?
Death of his younger brother Christopher
How is 'Mid-Term Break' structured?
How is 'Mid-Term Break' structured?
Seven tercets and a final standalone line
In which year did Seamus Heaney win the Nobel Prize in Literature?
In which year did Seamus Heaney win the Nobel Prize in Literature?
1995
Where does the speaker wait at the beginning of the poem?
Where does the speaker wait at the beginning of the poem?
In the college sick bay
What sound foreshadows death in the first stanza?
What sound foreshadows death in the first stanza?
Knelling of bells
What is significant about the father crying in the poem?
What is significant about the father crying in the poem?
It was a rare sight
Who says 'it was a hard blow' to the speaker?
Who says 'it was a hard blow' to the speaker?
Big Jim Evans
How does the baby sibling react during the funeral atmosphere?
How does the baby sibling react during the funeral atmosphere?
Laughs and coos, unaware of tragedy
How is the mother's grief described in stanza 5?
How is the mother's grief described in stanza 5?
Coughed out angry tearless sighs
What imagery describes the brother in the coffin?
What imagery describes the brother in the coffin?
He lay in the four-foot box as in his cot
What does the final standalone line emphasise?
What does the final standalone line emphasise?
The child's young age
How old was Christopher when he died?
How old was Christopher when he died?
4 years old