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Enjoy your life while you still can. Go outside, see new things and explore new places.

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Summary

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".

Why do you think the old lady shows no emotions and constantly ignores common objects?

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.

Song summary

The Who- My Generation

This song is about the 60s and how at this time generational differences stood in contrast with the parents on one side and the hippies on the other.

This song is a shout out to everyone in his generation, and he's talking about how people were trying to put the younger generation down and criticize their lifestyle choices, ideas, activism, music tastes, etc. because they were new and different and so the older generation got a bit scared and confused and wondered where the heck they went wrong. To the parents this was disrespect for life, and mockery of the experience and wisdom that come with age. He basically concludes "I'm not tryin to make a big sensation/... Just talkin bout my generation." He's just trying to point out that his generation isn't any better or worse than anybody else's... It's just his generation and he doesn't think people should decide they're all wrong because they aren't comfortable with the way the new generation does things.

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.

The Who- My Generation

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Rhyme Scheme (AABB)

Why don't you all f-fade away

And don't try to d-dig what we all s-s-say

I'm not trying to cause a b-big s-s-sensation

I'm just talkin' 'bout my g-g-generation

Conflict

Compare

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

Field of Vision

Seamus Heaney

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