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The Blackbird of Glanmore
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What Seamus Heaney saw whenever he first came to back home
The Blackbird of Glanmore
Page 21
Vakula Mallapally
Period 0B
Background Information
- Seamus Heaney's brother, Christopher
Thank you!
Theme/Mood/Tone
- about the loss of a loved one
- reveals gloomy and poignant feeling
Figurative Language
To God or Almighty figure
Metaphor to untapped potential
Sense of Foreboding
- Blackbird = bad news
- Shortness of each line
Enjambment
Symbolism
" 'I want away
To the house of death to my father
Under the low clay roof.' "
" And I think of one gone to him,
A little stillness dancer-
Haunter-son, lost brother-
Cavorting through the yard,
So glad to see me home,
My homesick first term over."
- Repetition
- "On the grass when I arrive"
- "In the ivy when I leave"
- Onomatopoeia
- "The automatic lock clucks shut,"
Feeling of suspence
Patterns
- Repetition of hyphenated words
- Repetition of hyphens at the end of specific lines
- Repetition colons before a quote
Significant
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