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    The poem Mid-Term Break by Seamus Heaney explores ideas of death, trauma, grief, and finality. It depicts a boy arriving home from boarding school to learn of his younger brother's tragic death. The boy recounts experiencing the loss of a loved one. The author uses various literary devices like imagery, metaphor, and simile to subtly convey the emotions and visualize the tragic event. Visual, auditory, kinetic, and tactile imagery are incorporated to help readers better understand the feelings and perspective of the characters during this difficult time.

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    The poem Mid-Term Break by Seamus Heaney explores ideas of death, trauma, grief, and finality. It depicts a boy arriving home from boarding school to learn of his younger brother's tragic death. The boy recounts experiencing the loss of a loved one. The author uses various literary devices like imagery, metaphor, and simile to subtly convey the emotions and visualize the tragic event. Visual, auditory, kinetic, and tactile imagery are incorporated to help readers better understand the feelings and perspective of the characters during this difficult time.

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    Imagery in Mid-Term Break

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    The poem Mid-Term Break by Seamus Heaney explores ideas of death, trauma, grief, and finality. It depicts a boy arriving home from boarding school to learn of his younger brother's tragic death. The boy recounts experiencing the loss of a loved one. The author uses various literary devices like imagery, metaphor, and simile to subtly convey the emotions and visualize the tragic event. Visual, auditory, kinetic, and tactile imagery are incorporated to help readers better understand the feelings and perspective of the characters during this difficult time.

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    (1) The imagery that predominates this poem is Death and Grief.

    In the poem Mid-Term Break by Seamus Heaney, the ideas of death, trauma, grief and finality are explored. The poem itself is as haunting as it is brilliantly executed. The poem depicts a boy arriving home from boarding school, to where he is informed of the tragic death of his younger brother, whose doomed fate indelibly marks the narrator, whom is the boys older brother. The boy recounts the experience of losing a loved one. The author has incorporated many elements and style in a subtle and distinct manner. (2)
    1. Visual imagery is perhaps the most frequently used form.

    The corpse, stanched Wearing a poppy bruise Paler I met my father crying

    2. Auditory imagery represents a sound.

    Counting bells knelling classes to a close The baby cooed and laughed and rocked the pram

    3. Kinetic imagery represents movement

    Our neighbours drove me home The ambulance arrived

    4. Tactile imagery represents touch.

    My mother held my hand Candles soothed the bedside

    Imagery can be showcased in many forms, such as metaphors and similes. A simile is a literary device where the writer employs the words "like" or "as" to compare two different ideas. It can be a strong word to use as a describing word in a simile or metaphor.

    He lay in the four foot box as in a cot

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    They are used to help the reader better grasp the beliefs, the thoughts and the feelings of the characters. To connect the character to the reader on different levels Helps to individualize the major characters of the drama Announces and elaborates major themes

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