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    Heaney, Personal Helicon - IOC Points & Analysis

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    Heaney, Personal Helicon - IOC Points & Analysis

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    I made notes on Heaney's Death of a Naturalist for the IOC. If you want to take a look at the points I came up with, here they are.

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    I made notes on Heaney's Death of a Naturalist for the IOC. If you want to take a look at the points I came up with, here they are.

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    Heaney, Personal Helicon - IOC Points & Analysis

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    I made notes on Heaney's Death of a Naturalist for the IOC. If you want to take a look at the points I came up with, here they are.

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    Personal Helicon

    Persona (who could very well be interpreted as Heaney himself) played with wells as a child.
    He liked the mechanics of it and after interacting with it for a while he drags the mulch
    out of the bottom of it. This allows him so see his own reflection and he uses the well to
    think about life and reflect. Persona now reflects through poetry
    Point 1 Childhood imagery and the effect on maturing justifying why he writes poetry
    waterweed, fungus and dank moss
    - Heavy use of earthy materials shows his childhood innocence and fascination with
    nature (naturalist)
    savoured the rich crash
    - Enjoyable childhood experiences he has not yet become mature
    - Buckets and windlasses enjoying playing and having new experiences
    fructified fruit is ripe associated with growth and fertility (algae but in a good way)
    could be seen as growth of maturity or generating inspiration
    + sensory experiences
    finger slime is beneath him and all adult dignity DoaN
    Point 2 Metaphor of the well
    saw no reflection initially with poetry you dont see anything about yourself
    dragged out the long roots tidy it up
    white face see yourself looking back he used the wells to reflect on life and himself
    echoes [] own call - all wells sound different he sees himself differently through all
    poetry each poem is a new well
    clean
    reflection -highlights that the poem has become more reflective
    Narcissus stared at his own reflection at helicon ended up killing him now the persona
    can reflect through poetry starts with digging
    He can see himself while writing poems can have a conversation with himself echoing
    Wells are like poetry as he can see himself through them almost like a third person
    observer
    Point 3 - Structure & Title
    Helicon
    - Source of poetic inspiration in Greek mythology
    - Either a fountain or where the muses live
    - He is setting out to explain his personal source of inspiration
    All senses are present
    - He is looking back and can see his personal development
    - His memory of sensory experiences allows whim to remember the well look back
    on source of inspiration
    Unusual rhythm and rhyme
    - Lots of assonance, pumps, buckets, bucket plummeted, drop, moss, hovered,
    bottom
    - ABAB with many half rhymes + iambic pentameter
    - These changes to the conventional pattern of an ABAB poem indicate the poet
    asserting his personal style and challenging the reader to reflect on this.
    Ends the collection where he started explaining why he writes poetry
    Conclusion
    Its the last poem very important
    Ties up the death of a naturalist loss of innocent enthusiasm
    Explains why poetry
    Explains how he will write his poetry and leave his mark

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