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“I sat in the college sick bay”
The poem has eight stanzas and three lines in each apart from the last which is just one line and sentence. ...
“Turn mealy and crisp as old summer dung
Until I forgot them. ...
The first line of the second stanza it says, “In the porch I met my father crying”. ... It also says,
“When I came in, and I was embarrassed
By old men standing up to shake my hand” This tells us that he was being treated like an adult and that he is obviously not used to that kind of treatment. ... calm and peaceful, and the candles are used to represent remembrance. ... I think Heaney used this metaphor, because poppies are used in remembrance of the dead. ... “And now when shrill pups are prodded to drown I just shrug. ... In the first line of the first stanza he says “I was six when I first saw kittens drown. ... “I was six when I first saw kittens drown”. ... Then later on we can gather that his attitude changes dramatically, “And now when shrill pups are prodded to drown I just shrug, ‘Bloody Pups. ...
“The glamour
Of childish days is upon me, my manhood is cast
Down in the flood of remembrance, and I weep like a child for the past.
Approximate Word count = 2226
Approximate Pages = 8.9
(250 words per page double spaced)
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