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On shelves at school. and wait and watch until

I would fill jampots full of the jellied

The daddy frog was called a bullfrog

The fattening dots burst into nimble-

Swimming tadpoles. Miss Walls would tell us how

Then one hot day when fields were rank

Specks to range on the window-sills at home

And how he croaked and how the mammy frog

Frogspawn. You could tell the weather by frogs too

For they were yellow in the sun and brown

In rain.

Laid hundreds of little eggs and this was

With cowdung in the grass the angry frogs

Invaded the flax-dam; I ducked through hedges

To a coarse croaking that I had not heard

But best of all was the warm think slobber

On sods; their loose necks pulsed like snails. Some hopped:

Before. The air was thick with a bass chorus.

Right down the dam gross-bellied frogs were cocked

In the shade of the banks. Here, every spring

Of frogspawn that grew like clotted water

The slap and plop were obscene threats. Some sat

Poised like mud grenades, their blunt heads farting.

Were gathered there for vengeance and I knew

I sickened, turned, and ran. The great slime kings

That if I dipped my hand the spawn would clutch it.

Wove a strong gauze of sound around the smell

There were dragon-flies, spotted butterflies,

Biography

Flax had rotted there, weighted down by huge sods

Bubbles gargled delicately, bluebottles

Meaning

What is the overall meaning of the poem?

Seamus Heaney was born on April 13, 1939, on a farm in Castledàwson, a region North Ireland. Heaney initially attended Anahorish Primary School, and when he was twelve years old, he won a scholarship to St. Columb's College. Seamus Heaney wrote his book Death of a Naturalist in 1965.

Daily it sweltered in the punishing sun

All the year the flax-dam festered in the heart

Of the townland; green and heavy headed

Structure

No Rhyme scheme in this poem- pushes towards an emphasis on imagery.

Iambic pentameter

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