Facts About Heaney
What inspired his poem "Midterm Break"?
His little brother's death
Where's is Repetition in the "Night Drive"?
Promised, Promised
Where is his lover in "Night Drive" supposedly located?
Italy
What is the main theme of the night drive?
Being in love, something ordinary can turn into something extraordinary, renewed spark
What's a Quatrain?
stanza with four lines
How many kids does he have?
3 kids, 2 boys 1 girl
What could the forest fire in "Night Drive" symbolize?
Love and Passion or exhaustion
Heaney takes inspiration from which legendary poet?
Shakespeare
In "A Call" what could grave possibly mean in this context?
his father's death, time running out
What is an anomaly in the structure within "A Call"?
The middle two stanzas are shifted, begins when the previous one ended, graphical element of poetry
How has Heaney's early life contributed to his poem
He grew up in the farm life, so he knows everything about his father and when his farmer gardens
Where is an onomatopeia found in "A Call"?
ticking
What is Heaney imagining his father do in "A Call"?
Weeding in the Leek Rig
In "A Call", what did Seamus NOT say and what's the adverb that goes with it?
He "nearly said I love you"
What is the typical style of Seamus Heaney
4 Quatrain
What's one university Heaney taught at?
Harvard, Oxford, UC Berkeley
What is personified in "A Call"?
Death
What two words does Heaney use to catch attention in "A Call"?
"Hold on"
In "Night Drive", what's a combine, and what does Heaney's line about combines tell you about society?
Group of people or companies acting together for a commercial purpose, working long hours is normalized so is exhaustion
What is the rhyme scheme of an Elizabethan Sonnet?
ab abcd cdef ef gg
At what age did Heaney win full ride scholarship
The age of 12
What are ... called
Ellipses
Name 2/3 of the city in France mentioned in "Night Drive".
Montreuil, Abbeville, Beauvais
What's one overall theme of "A Call"?
Time is running out, so it's important to say I love you to those you mean it to the most.
What is an Elizabethan Sonnet
14 lines, 3 quatrains and rhyming couplet at the end