Seamus Heaney. Comparing early purges mid-term break

Seamus Heaney
The Early purges and mid-term break

Compare and contrast Seamus Haney’s poems, ‘The early purges’ and ‘mid-term break’, commenting on any similarities between them. What lesson do the children in each poem learn?

Seamus Heaney was born on the 13th April 1939 in a small town in Ireland. He was the eldest of nine children and was part of a catholic family. His family owned a farm and that was their business, but Heaney didn’t follow that. He decided to follow his dream and become an English teacher and also became a poet.
Heaney has written many poems. Two of them are the ‘Early purges’ and ‘Mid-term break’. Both poems are about Heaney’s childhood and both seem to show important periods during his life.
‘The Early purges’ is a poem about farm life and what happens on a farm. In the poem it shows a lot of emotion from Heaney but also it shows the way that Heaney starts to accept what6 goes on, on a farm. The poem also sho...