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Enjoy your life while you still can. Go outside, see new things and explore new places.
Imagery: "Face to face with her was an education
Of the sort you got across a well-braced gate --
One of those lean, clean, iron, roadside ones
Between two whitewashed pillars, where you could see deeper into the country than you expected
And discovered that the field behind the hedge
Grew more distinctly strange as you kept standing
Focused and drawn in by what barred the way".
Simile: "Her brow was clear as the chrome bits of the chair".
Its on the country side in a local rural background.
Steadfast: Resolutely or dutifully firm and unwavering.
Ragwort: A yellow flowered plant that is toxic to live stock.
Stunted: Slow the growth or development of.
In this poem he states his admiration for his aging aunt. He portrays his aging aunt in her old age. She was confined to a wheelchair and used to stare out the window. Heaney describes the everyday things the old woman gaze ignored. In the third stanza Heaney focuses on the appearance of the old woman. He compares her forehead to chrome metal because she never expressed emotions. Heaney admires the old woman he doesn't view her as an imbecile. Heaney used to stare into open country side that led to surprising moments of vision for him. He imagines that woman also sees visions.
Conflict
There is a conflict between the parents of last generation and the kids of the current generation
"People try to put us d-down (Talkin' 'bout my generation)
Just because we get around (Talkin' 'bout my generation)"
Both the song and the poem talk about living life to the fullest